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And, honestly, they are not that hard to learn. Compared to the amount of time it takes to understand the semantics of "stdout", the time required to learn the spelling of "stdout" is nothing.

In a world where millions of Chinese programmers have to use keywords written in a foreign language who am I to complain?

There is little reason to expect that reforming POSIX spelling is going to be any more successful than reforming English spelling.




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