From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, pedro@codesourcery.com,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqm0ooee.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237774353.25721.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>
> From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
> Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:12:32 -0300
>
> Since we're in group therapy mode:
>
> What bothers me the most is the insistence on old-fashioned English
> "rules" which apparently were taught in schools back then, like the
> silly "two spaces after period" mantra, and "the passive voice shall
> NEVER be used!!!11!".
Your friendly therapist says: the silly "two spaces" rule is for Emacs
movement by sentence, and avoiding passive voice in English makes
shorter and less complicated sentences, and thus makes the text easier
to comprehend, especially to non-native English speakers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 4:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 0:22 Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 1:12 ` Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 1:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-03-23 1:31 ` Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 3:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-03-23 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-03-23 4:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-23 12:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-03-23 14:30 ` Joel Brobecker
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