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On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct |
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> fix :-) |
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No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. |
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> The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] |
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Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is doing. |
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> > (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation |
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> > manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been |
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> > unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's |
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> > ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) |
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> Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) |
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Sadness. |
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> [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, all |
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> considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal status, I |
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> had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. All |
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> the time. |
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I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. |
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> Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to accept |
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> that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. |
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Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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