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Re: EGCS or egcs?


On 31 Dec 1998, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>> Is our project called EGCS or egcs?
> I think that the project started 16 months ago has matured in some
> sense and should be spelled with capital letters ;-) so I vote for
> EGCS (short for "Enhanced GNU Compiler System")

FWIW, I checked the web pages:

  alphard[85]:/sw/swtest/egcs/wwwdocs/htdocs% grep egcs * | wc -l
     290
  alphard[86]:/sw/swtest/egcs/wwwdocs/htdocs% grep EGCS * | wc -l
      80

One advantage of the lower-case version is that it's more consistent when
deadling with the names of mailing-lists, domains and URLs (unless we
write these in upper-case as well, as in EGCS.cygnus.com and EGCS-patches).

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/


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