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Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy 
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esr@thyrsus.com said:
>  My personal esthetic distaste for the new terminology (gack!  "kibi"
> sounds like something I would feed my cat!) is less important than
> following best practices.  I'm hoping it will seem less ugly as it
> becomes more familiar. 

It will. The resistance to the new terminology simply on the grounds that 
it's new and not yet widely familiar _will_ pass.

The correctness and the lack of ambiguity will remain.

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dwmw2


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