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On 5/12/2013 1:18 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On 5/8/2013 10:39 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
>>> ...The field needs re-invented and re-centered.[...]
>> For anyone who want to be involved.  See the wikiwikiweb -- a tool
>> that every programmer should know and use --  and these pages:
>> ComputerScienceVersionTwo and ObjectOrientedRefactored.
>
> I've never understood why people use that site: the pages end up being
> unintelligible cocktail-party noise-scapes with no hope of understanding
> who is saying what, or in response to whom.

I certainly found it confusing that something responder and OP comments 
were in normal text and italic respectively, and sometimes the opposite, 
and maybe sometimes both in normal types.