NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:00:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:00:09 +0000 From: lipska the kat <"nospam at neversurrender dot co dot uk"> Organization: Trollbusters 3 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Boolean References: <38e873e0-549a-417c-b45b-9b9d52f65880@googlegroups.com> <51306447$0$1206$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <90683973-c8ab-4c79-b132-d6f45e939a69@googlegroups.com> <51345776$0$1385$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr> <093b4a9b-e2d8-4fdd-bc13-1eae629d9289@googlegroups.com> <5137eb06$0$32109$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <5138e178$0$32110$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> In-Reply-To: <5138e178$0$32110$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Lines: 72 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-hCPoqTox7m+aiB6OyraA4IrPffmFHfcMZkmuPt5hLRZUUmo1x7tzY6R7/DnhmxII7ykOPkUtM1HwuuL!CuLPe+Pj0LWcbIaR5xVDfN5gv6g+8iBiF0F0r3sUgraodlVbg8UkdRsEHwMwV8LAr6uhWBjfJKY= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3631 Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22794 On 07/03/13 18:50, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 3/7/2013 3:50 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >> On 07/03/13 01:19, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 3/4/2013 2:38 PM, Lew wrote: >>>> JLP wrote: >>>>> Lew a écrit : >>>>>> JLP wrote: >>>>>>> Nota : Class names must start with a capital letter >>>>>> Not "must", "should". >> >> [snip] >> >>>> This is not a question of knowing English but of knowing technical >>>> terms. >> >> Must and should are not 'technical terms' for goodness sake. >> >> "Technical terminology is the specialized vocabulary of any field" >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_terminology. >> >> Must and should are not "the specialized vocabulary" of any field, are >> they? > > These terms have a much more precise definition in IT specifications > than they have in plain English. > >>> Just in case: >>> >>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt >> >> And of course you NEVER use these words incorrectly do you. > > Confusing must and should? > > Probably not today. > > But that is not really the point. > > The point is that at some point in time we got it right because > somebody told us or pointed us to a good source of information. > > Those that learn when they are told something gain knowledge - those > that gets offended does not. those that *get* offended *do* not >> Why do you people consistently rubbish posters who's first language is >> not English. > > This is not really about English. The words was spelled correctly The words *were* spelled correctly > and used grammatically correct (as far as I can tell). and used *in a grammatically correct way* > But the way they were used to describe how to write a specific > programming language (Java) was not correct. must and should are not keywords in the Java programming language. > It would have been pretty bad if nobody had explained > what was correct and what was not. Well quite (see above) lipska -- Lipska the Kat©: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun