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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 4/10/11 1:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 21:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> 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).
>
> The "bibles" in this situation are "The Oxford Style Manual" and "The
> Chicago Manual of Style", everything else is mere commentary. :-)
>
> Romanian is not English, rules do not transfer ;-)
>
>> 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
>
> Since when has the "Oxford Comma" been known as the "Harvard Comma".
> Never.  Pah.
>
>> Above all, it's your article, and one great thing about that is you get
>> to decide everything about it. A great feeling!
>
> Except when the sub-editors impose the publisher's choices.  Of course
> they always work to either "The Oxford Style Manual" or "The Chicago
> Manual of Style", so the moral is to buy one of them and work to it.
>
> http://www.suite101.com/content/the-chicago-manual-of-style-vs-the-oxford-style-manual-a267432
>
> Also "The Oxford Style Manual" is smaller and cheaper as well as being
> better.  And of course English, whereas "The Chicago Manual of Style" is
> just American English.
>
> I shall now duck to avoid the spamming that this troll will invoke. :-)

In fact let me extend the same suggestion to you too: write! You are a 
seasoned writer who has recently worked a lot in and on D, so I'm sure 
you have a lot to share. And you stand to gain an iPad, too.

Andrei