[Article Context, First Draft] Concurrency, Parallelism and D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 10.04.2011 04:27, schrieb dsimcha:
> 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.

Having both "and" and the comma seems redundant to me.

But I'm German and we don't have a comma before and ("und") in lists* so
maybe I'm just not used to it.

Cheers,
- Daniel

* an Exception is when a subordinate clause ends before the "and", like
in "I know programming languages like C, D, which kicks ass, and Java"