From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 13 21:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12751 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6597.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12744 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 04:16:26 GMT (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00257; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:13:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:13:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Gerald Heinig cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spelling etc. In-Reply-To: <35329CF4.65DE8E18@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Gerald Heinig wrote: > Apart from numerous occasions where misleading documentation has caused > hours of pointless experimentation, making really *basic* spelling > mistakes gives a product a very tacky feel. The idea is: if they canīt > even get simple spelling right, whatīs their code going to look like? Submit PRs where we have it wrong in our documentation, please. No one save no one is arguing about using "whose" and "who's" in the proper places because we all agree that they should be used in the proper places! :) Mistakes happen. Sometimes (often?) hands type what they hear, not what they think. This isn't about not getting simple spelling right; it's about not having enough time/volunteers to proofread. Somewhere in here there is probably an interesting insight into how the brain works. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message