"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:inr5cq$m2e$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 04/09/2011 09:27 PM, dsimcha wrote: >> On 4/9/2011 10:22 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>> On 04/09/2011 08:31 PM, dsimcha wrote: >>>> On 4/9/2011 7:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >>>>> I think the article's title is missing a comma btw. >>>>> >>>>> Andrei >>>> >>>> Where? >>> >>> Where could it ever be? After "parallelism". >>> >>> Andrei >> >> Actually, I specifically remember learning about this grammar rule in >> middle school. When listing stuff, the comma before the "and" is >> optional. Putting it and not putting it are both correct. > > I see. I go by "Bugs in Writing" (awesome book) and Strunk/White. They > both recommend the comma, no ifs and buts (hard for me to get used to > because in Romanian that comma is _never_ correct). > > Just googled it now, it's quite a story. Found among other things a > Wikipedia page dedicated entirely to the topic! > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma > > Above all, it's your article, and one great thing about that is you get to > decide everything about it. A great feeling! >
Nice to know us programmers aren't the only ones who do serious bikeshedding :)