[jasonjayr]

The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete"

[crazygringo]

That's more charitable. Alt is still short for Alternate though, not Alter.

[YeGoblynQueenne]

I thought "Alt" in the title is meant in the sense of "stop", as in "halt", but on second thoughts maybe that only works in French (where h is always silent)?

[zoky]

I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate

[lysace]

That's bullshit (IMO) and the post author (Phillip Torrone - I believe that's one of the owners of Adafruit) is obviously ignorant in this regard.

That said, what he's actually talking about in the post makes a lot of sense. That is the important part.