Re: software style

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From: Vicki Rosenzweig
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 14:02

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We italicize certain Unix programs because they are generally
lower-cased, and sometimes have names that are too much like
standard English (make, cat, lint), so we want a way to make them
stand out enough that our readers will know what we mean. But
anything that takes a capital letter we set in Roman.


Vicki Rosenzweig
Associate Editor, Computing Reviews
vr%acmcr.uucp@murphy.com
212-626-0666

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