[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ss][Nn][Oo][Ww] spelling^wbranding

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:48:32PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> "Fran?ois Revol" <revol at free.fr> writes:
> 
> >> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 07:57:17PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 09:00 -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> >> > > > Sorry for bothering, but is there an official spelling or not?  
> >> > > > Or is it
> >> > > > just "I don't care, follow your own preference.", which is also 
> >> > > > fine.
> >> > > 
> >> > > 	Conventionally, FOURCCs from AVI files are uppercase. I would 
> >> > > vote for 
> >> > > SNOW (and that is the current FOURCC).
> >> > 
> >> > Aarrrgggg, capitals are ugly! Also they tend to be favoured by ugly
> >> > operating systems and applications (= because they are archaic).
> >> 
> >> Anyone know the reason why legacy systems used all caps? It's really
> >> funny..
> >
> > Because primitive terminals only had caps.
> 
> Well, then what was the reason for that?  This reminds me of turtles.

OK, here it is: Although all-lowercase was KNOWN at the time to be
easier to read and easier on the eyes than all-caps, designers chose
to use caps instead of lowercase because it would be blasphemy to
write god without a capital G...

Rich