From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:55:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cvsserver.perl: encourage use of English module and qx() operator
Message-ID: <86y6gncp69.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <87mxx3qr6y.fsf@jondo.cante.net>

>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

Jari> It would be interesting to know why not. These magic variables are hard
Jari> to read and remember without consulting the manual pages.

Because it was observed over time that the aliases were *also* hard to
remember without consulting the manpages. :)

So you were merely trading one problem for another, and since far more
code is out there that does *not* use English than does, we agreed that
use English was an interesting but failed experiment.

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