From: bowfin.cs.washington.edu!simon@beaver.cs.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Is there a comp.lang.english to which I can post this?
Date: 11 Jul 91 20:13:56 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991Jul11.201356.25311@beaver.cs.washington.edu> (raw)
Article <9107101438.AA10589@bunny.gte.com> quotes Ray Diederich:
=In article <EACHUS.91Jul9173612@largo.mitre.org>, (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
=
=> Dikstra once said that the best predictor of success in the field
=>of programming was a person's ability to use their native language.
=
=This sentence is not proper english. It should be:
=
="Dikstra once said that the best predictor of success in the field
=of programming was the people's ability to use their native language."
While we're correcting English, let me point out that it's Dijkstra,
not Dikstra.
---Kevin Simonson
--
My goal--which POSSIBLY affects my current attitude: The degree at which I
am shouting at you is always less than or equal to the degree
with which I down-deep love you, which is non-descending.
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1991-07-11 20:13 bowfin.cs.washington.edu!simon [this message]
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1991-07-11 21:19 Is there a comp.lang.english to which I can post this? Jim Showalter
1991-07-16 0:21 Robert I. Eachus
1991-07-16 13:12 agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!wrdis01!jshumate
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