Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 01:16:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: noslenj@swbell.net (Jay Nelson) Cc: tms2@mail.ptd.net (Thomas M. Sommers), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <200004120116.SAA09141@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004111749530.473-100000@acp.swbell.net> from "Jay Nelson" at Apr 11, 2000 06:06:07 PM
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> >In what ways is it fiendishly difficult? Many so-called grammatical > >rules, such as to not split infinitives, are nothing but some 18th > >century antiquarian's idea of what the language should be, not what it > >really is. > > I would disagree that the notion is antiquated. Split infinitives > create an ambiguous reference that isn't easily understood without > back-tracking and sorting out the pointers. So what you're saying is, it makes your LISP code more complicated, and you don't like that for some reason... "You can't add too much water to a nuclear reactor..." "You can't stare too long at a nuclear cloud..." -- Edward Asner, Saturday Night Live "Take my wife, please." -- Groucho Marx > Double negatives are equally as bad. "I don't have no X..." is common > American street idiom, but says little except the speaker has some X > -- which isn't what they generally mean. "I can't get no... satisfaction." -- Mick Jagger "I can't get no respect." -- Rodney Dangerfield > 'if [ ! "$grammer" != "$common_sense" ]; then...' is difficult to > read, hear or comprehend. Wait! That isn't "csh" syntax! Are you running "tcsh" or something? Let me try it out... % What would I have if I had a ) for the each hour these threads have run? Too many )'s. % Terrm Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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