[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2014-09-11 23:28:
> In article <lusvh5$b2v$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt
> <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>
>> Note that it is now almost impossible to anonymously author books.
>>
>> Computers can match up writing styles well enough that, with only
>> a fairly small example, one can determine who wrote something.
>
> Here on usenet, I can often recognize regular posters after reading just
> one line, or less (and I don't mean those who post the Really Long
> Lines; I mean a normal line of 72 characters or yes).  In particular,
> Hoff here and Richard Maine in comp.lang.fortran are immediately
> recognizable.
>
>> For the previous question, right behind has similar meaning to
>> immediately behind.
>
> Yes, I know; I just needed the setup.  :-)
>
>> I have no idea if it is related to right
>> and left, though.
>
> Vaguely.  Synonyms for right are good: dextrous, correct, etc.  Those
> for left are bad: sinister, etc.  So "right" in "right behind" is
> something positive, right behind it, i.e. not far away but immediately
> behind it.
>

I read a good book on that matter a few weeks ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Hand-Left-Chris-McManus/dp/0753813556
Amongst other things it has a discussion around why "left"
is "bad" and "right" is "good" in many cultures.
Recomended...

Jan-Erik.