A tutorial on D templates

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/14/2012 09:14 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Since we're on this topic I can't stop picking - all in good fun I hope
> - on Jonathan, the master of words. The following two sentences convey
> the same exact information:
>
> 1.
>
>> There are certainly times when reducing how much "you" is used reduces
>> the
>> amount of text at no extra cost, but there are other times, when it's
>> far more
>> natural to use "you," and it can become harder to produce sentences
>> without
>> completely reworking that section of text if "you" is removed.
>
> 2.
>
>> Sure, it can reduce the word count, but I
>> really don't think that it does all that much to improve the quality
>> of the
>> text, and it can require quite a bit more work, since it tends to be
>> unnatural
>> to avoid "you" in the way that technical writers like to.
>
> This pattern is quite frequent in Jonathan's posts. I trained myself to
> skip the last sentence of each paragraph and often the last paragraph
> entirely.
>
>
> Andrei
>

In longer posts, I think the information is often laid out in an 
approximately palindromic way.