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

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 11.04.2011 01:51, schrieb 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.

"Those that can't do, teach"

(And those that can't teach become lawyers and sue the pants off
everyone else to make up for it)[1]

;-)

[1] http://sheldoncomics.com/archive/040605.html