Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 13:00:17 +0100 From: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Eric Ogren <eogren@stanford.edu>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Style/Grammar/Writing Guidelines Message-ID: <20010614130017.C28006@cartman.techsupport.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010614134849.E13153@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:48:49PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.010613160240.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200106132316.f5DNG2365398@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010614134849.E13153@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:48:49PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan said: > Bruce A. Mah said on Jun 13, 2001 at 16:16:02: > > If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Recall that the Handbook is formally published as an actual book that will > > > hopefuly be put on the shelf at your local bookstore. With that in mind, usi > > > ng > > > formal English is quite appropriate. > > > > Appropriate, yes, but not required, IMHO. > > If you think formal language is important to get books onto > bookshelves, try "The Feynman Lectures in Physics" which is on every > physicist's bookshelf, pretty much, and every single academic > bookstore that I've ever seen. May I also suggest Programming Perl as an example of the informal style's accomplishments. Ceri -- We've tried this God stuff long enough. It's time for a change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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