[BoW] First Flame War (English Style)

[Kostya]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:18:03PM +0100, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2008/9/24 Benjamin Larsson <banan at ludd.ltu.se>:
> > Mike Melanson wrote:
> >> Allow me to kick off the first flame war for the Book of Wisdom:
> >>
> >> U.S. vs. British English.
> >>
> >> I saw the word "Quantisation" in the contents. That's British-style.
> >> U.S. style =~ s/s/z/;
> >
> > I stand in the z camp.
> 
> I'm in the 's'/it doesn't even really matter if we're inconsistent in
> code because it's still comprehensible anyway camp. But it seems this
> has already been decided as it is in the README that English of a
> British tongue should be used throughout. My guess is that that was
> Måns' influence.

Also it would be interesting to compare British/American language
usage in standards (ISO/IEC, IETF, ANSI, BS).
 
> Rob