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

[dsimcha]

On 4/10/2011 7:29 PM, Don wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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)
>
> Ugh. I have a profound hatred for that book. Rule of thumb: if any style
> guide warns agains split infinitives, burn it.
>

Another of my memories from my middle school education.  I specifically 
remember being told not to use split infinitives.  Then, a few weeks 
later we were watching the daily news video that was part of the middle 
school curriculum at the time and it was mentioned that the Oxford 
dictionary had voted to consider split infinitives proper grammar. 
(This was in either late 1998 or early 1999.)  All this happened with 
the teacher in the room watching.