Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks Date: 1 Nov 2022 21:30:27 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <2012409812.688843357.955525.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 0eQwMHaX+a55pYtPIq1H4Alv3GORo7kT6SVfVxh8n68DXpdAhI Cancel-Lock: sha1:F59TxTPxD68S+n0Hf8jAhXRKh80= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222260 comp.os.linux.misc:35854 On Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:14:17 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> Then there is the constant misuse of 'decimate'. > > I was starting to think I was the only person who bristles at that one. I bristle every time. Every tenth time, I get mad. > In the technical newsgroups I bemoan the declining number of people who > know the difference between baud and bps I used to drill that into my students... > or who know that that little > serial connector is correctly termed DE-9, not DB-9. I just idly use the right one, then wait to be corrected. Then jump on them! -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org