[Bioperl-l] advice

[Ryan Golhar]

Right.  There was a chain letter going around the internet for awhile
about how you can leave out certain letters and the human brain will
still be able to correctly interpret what the word is supposed to be.  

Either that or it was something about how Europe was adopting a new
variation of English and after many successions it started to sound/look
like German.  


> The wide variety of pronunciation of English around the world can be 
> mostly blamed on those damned vowels... so perhaps removing them helps

> one to reach a wider audience :-)
> 
> > As an aside, doesn't Damian Conway say something about the non-use 
> > of
> vowels
> > in 'Perl Best Practices?'  I think it was in relation to variables, 
> > though...
> 
> Yeah, on page 46 he says NOT to remove vowels in variable names, use 
> prefixes instead. Apprntly rmvng vwls mks t hrdr t ndrstnd stff.