Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks" Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:07:23 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <20240305132240.241@kylheku.com> <87le6wpbvc.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20240306161842.00001400@yahoo.com> <20240306114939.761@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:07:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="11b38f0fdef8c619d895dc1d0c253c52"; logging-data="4099703"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NhE5D4/rQklBC+3gKBFbT" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ljCkFcD0ORvlxRxw3woam6SUx8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:383531 comp.lang.c++:118508 comp.lang.java.programmer:53723 On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 21:36:14 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote: > What I'd like to know about is who keeps dialing the "harmonization" > efforts, which really must give grouse to the "harmonisation" > spellers ... Some words came from French and had “-ize”, others did not and had “-ise”. Some folks in Britain decided to change the former to the latter. “Televise”, “merchandise”, “advertise” -- never any “-ize” form. “Synchronize”, “harmonize”, “apologize” -- “-ize” originally.