Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > > > I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double > > negative, I get > > > > "that is the definition most people mean when they know enough to > > call non-scripting 'programming'". > > You cannot cancel two negatives out of sentence by merely assuming each > cancels the other. Whomever taught you that rule needs to be coaching > instead of teaching.
Nobody taught me that rule; it just seems the obvious thing to do, assuming that the person you're speaking with is silly enough to use a double negative in the first place. (Consulting <http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Hacker-Speech-Style.html> might be informative. Or not.) > "don't know enough not to" means "if you knew more, you wouldn't". If you say so; the mapping from the phrase on the left to the one on the right is far from obvious for me. > People who don't know enough not to think "programming" is a seperate > set than "scripting", as opposed to a superset of it, wouldn't think > that if they knew more. You're doing it again. john. -- "Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it." --- Calvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]