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Kev writes:

Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails. Ah well, in a few
decades more, dinosaurs like us won't matter.

Actually, in a few years, the abbreviations those kids use will be obsolete,
and their use of them will mark them as oldsters. They only use them to save
bandwidth, but bandwidth is always increasing.

I hate using telephone text messages because the keyboards are so small, but I
can type normal English on a standard keyboard a lot faster than those kids
can abbreviate their text messages.

At the same time, I have to add that some of the best programmers I've
ever known, were also dyslexic. They would make us crazy with
variables like "_reslut" instead of "_result". Even if you pointed it
out, they really couldn't see the mistake. Anyway, we just let it go
most of the time.

So how did they manage to write decent programs? Errors like that are very
serious in software engineering.

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Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails. Ah well, in a few
decades more, dinosaurs like us won't matter.

It was different of course in the more civilized days of telegrams,
where no abbreviations were needed, and full flowery sentences were
commonplace.

Jose
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On 2 May 2007 19:09:09 -0700, Kev wrote in
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Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails.

Didn't the old telegraphers employ a similar shorthand?

"Kev" wrote in message
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Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails. Ah well, in a few
decades more, dinosaurs like us won't matter.

Well, it's obvious pilots can't spell either. Most weather forecasts I read
don't have a single word spelled correctly

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Kev writes:

Kids not only can't spell these days, they use tons of text-messaging
abbreviations that drive us nuts in formal emails. Ah well, in a few
decades more, dinosaurs like us won't matter.

Actually, in a few years, the abbreviations those kids use will be
obsolete, and their use of them will mark them as oldsters. They only
use them to save bandwidth, but bandwidth is always increasing.

I hate using telephone text messages because the keyboards are so
small, but I can type normal English on a standard keyboard a lot
faster than those kids can abbreviate their text messages.

WTF would want to talk to you anyway?

Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip writes:

WTF would want to talk to you anyway?

Do you see the irony in your post?

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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So how did they manage to write decent programs? Errors like that are
very
serious in software engineering.


A question like that makes me really doubt that you have ever done any
programming regardless of your insistance. Programming languages have little
to do with spelling and grammar skills, and much more to do with syntax and
structure.

Maxwell writes:

A question like that makes me really doubt that you have ever done any
programming regardless of your insistance.

What you believe or doubt is of no importance to me.

Programming languages have little to do with spelling and grammar
skills, and much more to do with syntax and structure.

There's a reason why they are both called _languages_.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Maxwell writes:

A question like that makes me really doubt that you have ever done any
programming regardless of your insistance.

What you believe or doubt is of no importance to me.

Programming languages have little to do with spelling and grammar
skills, and much more to do with syntax and structure.

There's a reason why they are both called _languages_.


And you continue to prove yourself both dishonest and clueless.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip writes:

WTF would want to talk to you anyway?

Do you see the irony in your post?

Nope. Might have if you'd ignored it, th0ugh, wannabe terrorist luser.



Bertie