[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy
Paul Sture
nospam at sture.ch
Sat Feb 2 13:55:20 EST 2013
In article <an4q23FbfmgU3 at mid.individual.net>,
billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> Considering the complaints about text formating in man pages and
> the repeated grammar and spelling corrections seen here and in
> other technical groups, just when did computer science become the
> domain of frustrated english teachers?
See recent posts about Eternal September...
:-)
More seriously, for me as a Brit the VMS and other DEC documentation
always shone because it used correct and proper English where the
competition let US slang and phraseology creep in.
--
Paul Sture
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