period after Mrs. and Mr. right, so why wouldn't there be a period after
Ms. > because it's another designation.
In the link I provided it explains why :) Mister and Missus are the actual
words and Mr. and Mrs. are abbreviations for such. Ms is NOT an
abbreviation, therefore should not have a period after it. HOWEVER,
modern-day has taken to putting a period there for the same nonsensical
reasons (to me).... because it looks better :)
Re: derangement: code review request ... It's still an abbreviation, and avoiding abbreviations would ... Or are you saying you've considered all possible reasons... >> the spacing style used above is something Richard Bos is unaccustomed ... Weak because the spacing in the prose text example is ... (comp.lang.c)
Re: Hungarian Notation ... And for exactly the same reasons that it gets unmanageable it is always somewhat more difficult to read - there is a scale of difficulty from not very to damn near impossible. ...Abbreviations are almost always harder to understand than the word or words that they are abbreviating. ..."CustomerCombo" and "CustomerComboBox" in the same code is better than "cbCustomer" and "cmbCustomer" in the same code. ... Now, while I would regard any perceived benefit as highly dubious, I would not claim that you do not get any. ... (borland.public.delphi.non-technical)
Re: Password question ... > password for a number of reasons.... > combinations of words, abbreviations and palindromes.... http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52 OT Re: A beautiful morning in AFM.... (comp.security.misc)
Password question ... password for a number of reasons.... combinations of words, abbreviations and palindromes.... (comp.security.misc)
