Just to cool down the flames ... Doug is right. (But I don't actually 
care how it is spelled ....).

Cheers,

Alan

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At 3:03 PM -0400 8/8/01, Doug Way wrote:
>Timothy Reaves wrote:
>>
>>  On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 08:36:58 -0700
>>  Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 02:37 pm, you wrote:
>>  > > I have recently been laid off after 2 years of work. While my work
>>  > > dealt mostly with Java, J2EE and C, I would love a chance to make a
>>  > > living at SmallTalk programming.
>>  >
>>  > Step 1: Learn to spell Smalltalk correctly.
>>  >
>>
>>          SmallTalk IS spelled as one word, and with the tee 
>>capitalized!  This was done in the vein of class naming; run the 
>>word together capitalizing the first letter of each word.
>
>Uh oh, let the flames begin. ;-)
>
>No, Smalltalk is supposed to be spelled with the T un-capitalized. 
>Maybe you like to spell it with a capital T, in the vein of 
>InterCaps-style naming (which is probably why it's often misspelled 
>this way), but it ain't right. ;-)  The name Smalltalk is based on 
>the single English word "smalltalk", not two words "small" and 
>"talk"... if it were based on two words, then yes, you would 
>capitalize the T.
>
>- Doug Way
>   dway at riskmetrics.com


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