On 17 Aug 2006 06:42:55 -0700, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Of interest:
>
> The Semicolon Wars, by Brian Hayes. 2006.
> http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51982
[snip]
> What Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
>http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_t
On Thu, 03 May 2007 14:54:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject: Responding to Trolls [was Re: ignorance and intolerance in computing
>communties]
Nope. No way.
Michele
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:28:36 +0100, bugbear
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Er. How about
>
>public class test {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> String a = "a string";
> String b = "another one";
> StringBuffer c = a + b;
> System.out.println(c);
> }
>}
Even better:
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:58:52 -0400, D Herring
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>- Please topquote snippets from the threads about which you are commenting.
>
>- Please set your newsreader to prepend "Re: " or somesuch when replying
>to a toplevel post.
>
>- Please don't preach about "meta-talk and poli
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:07:37 -0400, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Xah Lee wrote:
>> i have written ... No coherent argument,
I've long killfiled XL to the effect that all of his threads are
ignored altogether, since the guy is "nice" enough to only take part
to his own rants, but occasionally
