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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: :-)  A Brand-New Language!  :-)
Date: 2000/04/02
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On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 18:45:13 +1000, G <gmw@interact.net.au> wrote:
>fine example of American Techno-Imperialism... like HTML COLOR argh - I
>mean... COLOUR thankyou very much... but that doesn't work...
>*sigh*

COLOUR has nothing to recommend it from a technical standpoint -
it uses an extra letter, increasing bandwith use, and if used
in addition to COLOR, it complicates every HTML reader out there.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU