Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.
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Sat Aug 30 05:59:08 PDT 2014
On Saturday, 30 August 2014 at 11:19:55 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On 8/30/2014 5:38 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>
>> ˙ǝƃɐnƃuɐן uʍo ɹıǝɥʇ ǝʇıɹʍ ɹo ʞɐǝds pןnoɥs ʎǝɥʇ ʍoɥ uo ǝןdoǝd
>> ɥsıןƃuƎ
>> ʇɔǝɹɹoɔ oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ sʎɐʍןɐ ǝɹɐ ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ-uou ʇɐɥʇ snoıɹɐןıɥ
>> ʇı puıɟ
>> sʎɐʍןɐ I
>>
>
> I'm a native English speaker. Uncapitalized "I" makes a writer
> come across like a common leet-speak obsessed immature script
> kiddy. I know you're not one though, which makes it all the
> more puzzling.
>
> Defend it all you want, argue that it doesn't matter...but it
> still makes yourself look bad. And for what worthwhile benefit?
>
> (I think native speakers tend to gloss such things over because
> they've already seen it so much they've become accustomed to
> tuning out anyone writing in such styles.)
>
> It's not my intent to be insulting here, but the level of
> insistence on deliberately using and defending such a trivial,
> and self-defeating, rebelling is just...really??
While we're on the subject of capitalization styles we find
distracting, I find the German Practice of capitalizing every
Noun in a Sentence extremely distracting. I remember reading an
older version of Gulliver's Travels that was written in this
style, and it was quite annoying.
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