Re:Tcl Static Prime: experimental compiler for Tcl that prod...
by amyjess on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @06:05PM
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Stuff like this intrigues me, from a linguistic perspective.
I'm really curious what lead to the community settling on this. You'll occasionally see all-lowercase in some projects thanks to the fact that *nix commands are usually all-lowercase, but title-casing an acronym is weird.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because "Tcl" is typically pronounced as a word ("tickle"), so it got de-acronymized like "radar" or "scuba". Then again, nobody writes SCSI as Scsi. I'd love to study this some more...
I'm really curious what lead to the community settling on this. You'll occasionally see all-lowercase in some projects thanks to the fact that *nix commands are usually all-lowercase, but title-casing an acronym is weird.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it's because "Tcl" is typically pronounced as a word ("tickle"), so it got de-acronymized like "radar" or "scuba". Then again, nobody writes SCSI as Scsi. I'd love to study this some more...