The fact that /lib/dev has punctuation is something that was discussed
in #code4lib.  All I can say, as Roy pointed out, is the people voted
for what they wanted.  Fwiw, unlike C++ (which is a pain to search
for), /lib/dev without the punctuation leaves a searchable string
"libdev" (that's why we have see refs, no?)

Kevin



On 5/3/06, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Eric,
> Surely you must realize it was a vote. Once it was put to a vote,
> under specific rules, if the rules are followed (and they were as far
> as I know), then we're stuck with it, for good or evil.
> Unfortunately, I think poor Jeff Davis was quite against that choice.
> Roy
>
> On May 3, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:
>
> >> Here's the latest on the code4lib journal:
> >>
> >> "/lib/dev: A Journal for Library Programmers" won the journal name
> >> vote.  (See http://www.code4lib.org/node/96 for more details.)
> >
> > The idea of a journal name that contains punctuation in the title is
> > so breathtakingly idiotic that I can only assume that it is a
> > reference to the bug in the name of the computer language  C++
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