I've started blog a little more about D.

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/21/13 3:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/21/2013 2:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Or worse, just think that you have a lower intelligence level than you
>> actually have.
>
> I read code, articles, books, etc., all day. There's a million times
> more content than I could hope to read. So I (and everyone else) needs
> some sort of filtering mechanism.
>
> A common filter is layout, spelling, grammar, punctuation,
> capitalization, etc. The more problems there are with that, the more the
> reader is apt to conclude "this is not worth my time to read" and skip
> it. Disorganized, sloppy presentation is strongly correlated with
> disorganized, sloppy thoughts, and who wants to spend time reading it?
>
> Presentation is incredibly important.

Regarding that, this is one awesomely funny flamewar:

http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html

The flamewar became epic enough to get its own place on Wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greek_Seaman


Andrei