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

[Jonathan M Davis]

> 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"

I'm sure that the wikipedia article goes into a fair bit of detail on it, but 
there are cases where the lack of the comma leads to ambiguity. I believe that 
the current recommendation is to always put the comma in, but it's bound to 
depend on who you talk to - even among English teachers.

- Jonathan M Davis