[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Create best practices documentation

Olle E. Johansson oej at edvina.net
Wed Feb 17 09:09:04 CST 2010


>> On 2010-02-17 01:05:08, Olle E Johansson wrote:
>>> /README-SERIOUSLY.bestpractices.txt, line 182
>>> <https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/507/diff/1/?file=8137#file8137line182>
>>> 
>>>    Internet with capital i - twice in this paragraph.
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> Actually, I left internet uncapitalized on purpose, for the reasons quoted in this wikipedia entry:
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> "However, critics argue that some things that are unique yet distributed, such as "the power grid", "the telephone network", and even "the sky", are not considered proper nouns, and are thus not capitalized. Since at least 2002 it has been theorized that Internet has been changing from a proper noun to a generic term.[1] Words for new technologies, such as Phonograph in the 19th century, are sometimes capitalized at first, later becoming uncapitalized.[1] It was suggested as early as 1999 that Internet might, like some other commonly used proper nouns, lose its capital letter.[2]"
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> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions

Ha ha ha. Right. Poor internet, to be disgraded to lower case. :-)

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>> On 2010-02-17 01:05:08, Olle E Johansson wrote:
>>> /README-SERIOUSLY.bestpractices.txt, line 230
>>> <https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/507/diff/1/?file=8137#file8137line230>
>>> 
>>>    Hmm. Either two sentences or a comma after the URL.
> 
> Actually I removed the comma after "generators" as I don't like having a comma after URLs if I can avoid it. In this case the commas are not really necessary.
Hey, it's your language, not mine. :-)

/O


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