On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:58:32 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 5/07/2013 9:53 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> The intellectual difficulty of learning to use regular expressions is >> being greatly exaggerated here. The principles involved could be >> written out, for the convenience of notionally reactionary >> mainframers, in some few eighty-column card images. > >I find your grammer more difficult to understand than any regex ;) > It's rarely the grammar, but frequently the vocabulary and the historical and literary references. But I sometimes learn from looking them up, and all in all I consider the style well within the charter of thls list.
BTW, old topic: On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:45:54 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >We must all choose our own authorities, and he has every right to >choose his. I, however, prefer the OED ... What does the OED say about "precession"? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
