[Gllug] re: apostrophy - use thereof

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On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Chris Bell stipulated:
>> 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 :)) )
>> 
>    Are you comparing the structure of Unix with that of another OS?

I think the maths fiends would have to go to research OSes, which are
still elegant because nobody's piled cruft onto them --- and which
therefore reinvent every wheel and are somewhat feature-impoverished.

[knows three maths fiends, all of which use Unix and groan about how
 there Must Be A Better Way which involves rewriting the entire
 universe from the ground up]

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