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Adam Funk  
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 More options Apr 22 2010, 8:38 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp, alt.usage.english
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From: Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:38:39 +0100
Local: Thurs, Apr 22 2010 8:38 am
Subject: Re: Who were the opponents of Lisp?
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On 2010-04-21, Xah Lee wrote:

> On Apr 21, 5:00 am, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> On 2010-04-20, Xah Lee wrote:

>> > Actually, just yesterday i wrote:

>> > • The Writing Style on XahLee.org
>> >  http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/xah_style.html

>> The paragraph on dashes goes against every standard for English that
>> I've seen.  In typeset work, em-dashes should never be spaced
>> (although I use " --- " for them in plain-text formats such as
>> USENET), and there is a useful distinction between em- and en-dashes
>> (the latter are for ranges of numbers, for example).  Many British
>> publishers follow a custom of using spaced en-dashes instead of
>> em-dashes; I don't like this, but at least they are making the
>> distinction.

> I think most of your remarks is factually wrong.  I was going to be
> colorful and say that the logical conclusion is that you haven't seen
> much, but, just that most of your remarks is factually wrong.

I'm fairly sure the factual claims in what I wrote are correct.  The
opinion parts are where we disagree, ...

> See, for example, here, on the section on Hyphen and Dashes:

> • The Moronicities of Typography
>   http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/typography.html

...because I see you're developing your own standards, as well as your
own version of English ("and", "a"/"an", for example).

--
I don't know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway;
Whatever it is, I'm against it!  [Prof. Wagstaff]


 
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