Re: Why do ppl spell Lua as LUA?

Subject: Re: Why do ppl spell Lua as LUA?
From: Robert Virding &lt;rvirding@ ... &gt;
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:11:00 +0200

And what about lazy people like me who write lua? Perhaps we just get slapped? Is it a case of "lua unppercased accident"? Why do I get these strong vibes about Poe's law?

Robert

On 17 May 2014 23:11, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17/05/2014 17:09, Pablo Musa wrote:

> I'd be interested to see if Portuguese speakers make the same mistake.

They do :(

Yep, we do... but I'm pretty sure that's because we learn it wrong...

Em Sexta-feira, 16 de Maio de 2014 4:27, Joseph Manning <manning@cs.ucc.ie> escreveu:

On 2014-May-15 (Thu) at 23:56 (+0100), Paul Cuthbertson wrote:

>> I also like the recursive "LUA: Unknown Acronym".

Ah, but it *is* known -- it's the infamous Lua Uppercase Acronym :-)

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