Michael Everson wrote on 2000-03-13 13:34 UTC:
> http://www.egt.ie/standards/capsmall.html
Sounds convincing. You might add that ASCII ordering also did it always
that way.
Does DIN 5007 come with any rationale for its aA sorting order? If not,
then I suggest that like any standard without proper rationale, it shall
be doomed to remain ignored. This would be a good lesson for the authors
of future standards who think that adding rationales is not necessary.
Even if you simply tossed a coin to make an arbitrary decision when
writing a standard, at least say that this was your decision criterion.
With standards being revised and replaced by others frequently these
days, the design rationale has often more long-term importance than the
actual standard itself.
Markus
-- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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