From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, andreas@rammhold.de,
Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sha256 for hashes in the release process
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:20:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu09oyq6.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53cd2979-e0b1-3717-35cc-91be5b2ca0c3@simark.ca> (Simon Marchi's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:10:07 -0400")
On Okt 26 2020, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-10-26 9:31 a.m., Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> But SHA is an abbreviation, so I would expect ES EITCH EI.
>
> More precisely, it is an acronym. And acronyms are pronounced as a word
> all the time. Since it's much easier to say "shaw" than "s-h-a", I
> presume most people say "shaw" (that's how I've always heard it anyway).
So the right thing to do is to reformulate the sentence so that it
doesn't depend on sha256sum being a word.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-26 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-26 1:33 andreas
2020-10-26 2:24 ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-26 3:04 ` andreas
2020-10-26 7:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-26 12:53 ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-26 13:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-26 14:10 ` Simon Marchi
2020-10-26 14:20 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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