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

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Apr 10 00:08:43 PDT 2011


"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:inr5cq$m2e$1 at 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 
:)





More information about the Digitalmars-d-announce mailing list