Re: An article on Lua in a French programming magazine

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Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net> wrote:

>Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>>More information when I read the article... I just wonder why the author
>>>keep writing "LUA" in capitals as if it is an acronym...
>> 
>> Many people seem to do this. I'm guessing that the original mistake is to
>> think that "Lua" must be an acronym as it's too short to be a real word.
>
>1) People should read the full manual before writing (end of 
>Introduction)...
>
>2) Probably same fate for Unix.
>
>3) Personally, I opted for the modern typographic convention of writing 
>pronounceable acronyms like a real word: Unesco, Ascii, but HTML, SVG, 
>etc. Dropped G.N.U. style...
>
>4) Perhaps we should then make a Lua (recursive?) acronym, so this would 
>be true too.
>I am not too good at this kind of stuff. Let's shot: "Lua is unusually 
>attractive"...
>
>Regards.
>
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