From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 19:41:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.icl.net!ldn-newsfeed.speedport.net!newsfeed.speedport.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Commenting code Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 03:00:40 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3B2031C8.83112266@brighton.ac.uk> References: <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fjgha$blf$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <35mqhtkdfma2rggv1htcaq6vfn2ihs67a1@4ax.com> <3B1E1452.BAFAAB7F@baesystems.com> <3B1E4B93.7FB8A94D@lmtas.lmco.com> <3B1F3704.C7E0D03A@brighton.ac.uk> <3B202E17.7C728B66@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-b1.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 991965624 15445 194.81.199.181 (8 Jun 2001 02:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jun 2001 02:00:24 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10469 comp.lang.ada:8378 comp.lang.awk:2876 comp.lang.clarion:21391 comp.lang.java.programmer:74593 comp.lang.pl1:881 comp.lang.vrml:3620 Date: 2001-06-08T02:00:24+00:00 List-Id: John English wrote: > > ... I also had to have "soccer mom" > translated -- it appeared in an article in CACM, and a letter to the > editor produced a null response since it was presumably too obvious > to answer. Off topic: I just dug the article out for another look, and apparently in the USA "technology is chasing the soccer mom", which conjures up images of a mobile phone running around a "soccer" pitch after some hapless woman dressed in football kit... It could equally well have read "pizzas are chasing the tweety bird", for all the semantic import it had for me... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------