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"Jari" == Jari Aalto [off-list ref] writes:
Jari> It would be interesting to know why not. These magic variables are hard
Jari> to read and remember without consulting the manual pages.
Because it was observed over time that the aliases were *also* hard to
remember without consulting the manpages. :)
So you were merely trading one problem for another, and since far more
code is out there that does *not* use English than does, we agreed that
use English was an interesting but failed experiment.
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