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tn1 | 2 years ago

The title should be all caps. From this page [1]:

> Note: DJGPP is spelled all upper case when it would normally be capitalized, and all lower case otherwise. It is never correct to spell it ``Djgpp''.

[1] https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html

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marcus0x62|2 years ago

The author has a page[0] wherein he notes his legal first name is "DJ" and that it is not appropriate to spell it in lower case, insert spaces or periods, etc. Also on that page, directly above that admonition, is an image with his name spelled in lower case. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

0 - https://www.delorie.com/users/dj/

dang|2 years ago

We don't usually do that (e.g. Nvidia not NVIDIA is standard in HN titles) but I've uppercased it (belatedly) now.

pronoiac|2 years ago

I emailed the mods.

bmacho|2 years ago

I hate when the creators of a word make it irregular in English. Are there other words with irregular capitalization?

Sharlin|2 years ago

What exactly makes you think it’s a word when it’s clearly an initialism? Do you also write MS-DOS as "Ms-dos" or BBC as "Bbc"? (Or NATO as "Nato", though that one actually has better grounds to be written like that, being an acronym rather than an initialism – in some orthographies acronyms are indeed written like proper nouns.)

ale42|2 years ago

Is it a word or an acronym? Or neither?

croes|2 years ago

By your logic NASA, NATO, CIA, FBI etc.

DJ's GNU Programming Platform (DJGPP)

bmacho|2 years ago

The linked site starts sentences with "djgpp 1.05" and "djgpp 1.06", so maybe the software name has a different irregular capitalization than version names, which stay lowercase no matter what.

keepamovin|2 years ago

Yeah, that's really creators' fault.

    /s