[Gllug] re: apostrophy - use thereof

Mark Hill lists at mark.ukfsn.org
Thu Sep 9 21:09:52 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:36:32PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, t. clarke stated:
> > Maybe GLLUG stands for Greater London Language User Group ??
> 
> Sometimes I think it might.
> 
> Aren't all computerish folk at least vaguely interested in language?
> (Those who don't approach it as if it were maths: and many of *those*
> are driven from Unix in disgust at its chaotic structure :)) )

Perhaps people interested in language are more interested in a
command-line system than say Windows? There's an article talking about
this in the following link, which some people might like:

The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature
<http://www.insecure.org/stf/scoville_unix_as_literature.txt>

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