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

[Sean Kelly]

On Apr 9, 2011, at 7:37 PM, 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) 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

This issue has a lot of history.  In fact, there's been at least one book written about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves