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Subject: Re: I would appreciate a code review
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From: Curt <cu...@freeze.invalid>
Date: 08 Nov 2003 22:47:26 +0100
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Kenny Tilton <ktil...@nyc.rr.com> writes:

> Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> > t...@tenkan.org (Tim Daly Jr.) writes:

> >>Oh, wait, you mean this isn't comp.lang.english?  Silly me.

> >>-Tim (Who somehow expected more than spelling lessons from a professor
> >>of computer science.)

> > Exactly, who minds using libraries where half the names are spelled
> > incorrectly? ("Let me see, I want to use the occurrences function but first I
> > have to look up how the author spelled it again. I'd also better misspell my
> > own foo-occurrences function the same way, for consistencies sake.") Great.

> That's "for consistency's sake", in Englisch anyway.

I think he was just being consistent for the sake of Miss Spelling, whoever she is.