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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-12 01:50:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!do.de.uu.net!feeder01.news.de.uu.net!news-1.bank.dresdner.net!not-for-mail From: James Kanze 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: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:36:38 +0200 Organization: Dresdner Bank AG Message-ID: <3B25D496.67CA1F0C@dresdner-bank.com> 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> <3B24A059.4A2B081A@dresdner-bank.com> Reply-To: default@dresdner-bank.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ffzj09tz.bank.dresdner.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD drebazen10 (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,fr,de Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10554 comp.lang.ada:8598 comp.lang.awk:3006 comp.lang.clarion:21724 comp.lang.java.programmer:75536 comp.lang.pl1:977 comp.lang.vrml:3726 Date: 2001-06-12T10:36:38+02:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > In article <3B24A059.4A2B081A@dresdner-bank.com>, James Kanze says... > >Ted Dennison wrote: > >> Not to mention that in our football, big burly guys "sock" the > >> bezejsus out of each other. But we had our football before yours, > >> so the name was already in use (and I don't think even Emacs is > >> powerful enough to find and change all occurances in American > >> minds :-) ) > >Are you sure you had your football first? The Encyclopedia > >Brittanica doesn't agree with you. > I'm quite sure that we had our football before *we* had yours. I > would have hoped it was quite clear from the context that I meant > that. Claiming the other would just be plain stupid. (I knew I'd get > roasted for leaving out that pronoun. Damn.) Sorry, my misreading. Although if I remember the Brittanica article correctly, your American football started because someone playing European football took to carrying the ball. After which, it was unanimously decided that carrying the ball was OK, and our football became yours. (When the same thing happened in England, there was no agreement, and they ended up with two sports: football and rugby. Rugby is a lot like American football without the forward passes, without the commercial timeouts, and without any of the protective clothing -- in south France, they say you can always recognize a Rugby player by the missing front teeth.) -- James Kanze mailto:kanze@gabi-soft.de Conseils en informatique orient�e objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung Ziegelh�ttenweg 17a, 60598 Frankfurt, Germany Tel. +49(069)63198627