Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 04:47:43 -0600 | From | Phil Howard <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
| Please NO NO NO NO!! | | Why on earth is it good to develop misunderstandings and inconsistency | with well- and widely-known historical abbrevs? | | I (and I think I'm far not alone) would hate to see those abbrevs. I | really don't want to vomit every time I read configure.help or an | ifconfig output. | | | This is a 3-year old decision, and haven't seen it in use anywhere before. | If this knew style would be the common use in IT, then this change is OK. | But _not_ now. (and hopefully never). | | So may I suggest considering this change a few years later, _if_ it comes | into common use?
I can understand your point about not jumping into something that will turn out (possibly) to be a big flop and cause new confusion. However, I'd like to point out that any new idea will _never_ become adopted if everyone takes the position of "I'm not going to do it until most everyone else does first".
If this is going to be the common usage, I believe we need to be the lead on this and do it. The question is, how can we determine if it will be common _before_ anyone else takes the lead to make it be so.
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