Re: [sqlite] Standalone LUA regex that can be used in sqlite

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:49 PM, joao lobato <btnfdp.lobato@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even if non-portuguese speakers don't recognize it a word, the fact
>> that it has vowels should be a hint no?
>
> Well, I think it is more obvious than that: every official Lua text
> calls it Lua, not LUA.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> PERL is an acronym.
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Alessandro Delgado
> <adelgado1313@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, indeed it is.
>
> Well, according to wikipedia [1], Perl is not officially an acronym...
>
>
> But the important thing is that these are good news for Lua! =)
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
>
> --
> NI!
>

Actually, the real reason FORTRAN and COBOL are traditionally spelled
with all caps is that when they were invented, most of the equipment
only *had* capital letters. ;-)


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