[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

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In article <pJidnaeMs7aVJ0TRnZ2dnUVZ_uudnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>On 11/8/2010 10:48 AM, JF Mezei wrote:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>>> Once?  That's typical Jersey-speak!  It makes my ears bleed to hear it
>>> and I don't care who it is that's said it, I make an effort to correct
>>> it.
>>
>> Early cobol requires the code be all uppercase and that lines start at
>> specific columns within a line. Later versio of cobol (such as DEC's)
>> allowed the use of the TAB character, allowed uppercase and lowercase
>> and was much mroe flexible in terms of where characters started within a
>> line.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the same is happening to languages where there is more
>> flexibility in its use as long as peoople continue to be able to parse
>> and understand the language.
>
>Peoople????  You need to put on your glasses and/or turn on your 
>spelling checker!

Perhaps JF's Canuck to English translator is broken.  


>
>And you too, JF.  "versio", "mroe"??????
>
>L.E. Modessit pointed out that languages change.  "To discriminate" used 
>to mean "sorting out the good from the bad".  In the last sixty or 
>seventy years it has come to mean sorting the whites from the negroes.

I thought that the Mac OS X spell checker was integrated in to the various
OS X news agents.


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