On Mon 02 Jan 2012, Bruno Haible wrote: > It's good to clean up some of these terms once in a decade, yes. > > I'm largely responsible of this issue: I started using "Woe32" > instead of "Win32", out of frustration when porting GNU clisp to > this platform, and mimicking the word "MS-DOG" found in Emacs. > Then I mentioned it to RMS, who subsequently added some wording > about it to the GNU Coding Standards. Some time later, I grew up > and found it a bit childish; so I used this word only in comments > and READMEs but not in function names or real code. > > The phrase "Windows Operating Environment" is new to me. Rarely seen.
Your suggestions seem pragmatic and more even handed than Paul's proposed patch. AndyM
