On Wednesday 10 May 2017 23:33:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I you read -dev, you could have replied to the original with a correct > fix :-)
No good. I can't read C. I gave up in the '80s and reverted to assembler. > The author isn't English mother-tongue btw [1] Maybe not, but he's only following what the typical American is doing. > > (By way of explanation, 35 years ago I was made the documentation > > manager of a 200-man-year software project. Ever since then I've been > > unable to read anything at all without the eye of an editor - it's > > ruined my enjoyment of everything I read. There's no hope any longer.) > > Oh noes. So you can't enjoy Pratchett? poor, poor you <shudder> :-) Sadness. > [1] Living in a country with 11 (yes, eleven!) official languages, all > considered legally valid for purposes of government with equal status, I > had to let go of English bias and accept that languages get mangled. All > the time. I sympathise. I couldn't live in a place like that. > Except for this new meaning for "revert". can't bring myself to accept > that one, too much like gouging out eyeballs with a blunt spoon. Eh? What meaning is that? I seem to have missed it. -- Regards Peter
