Xref: utzoo sci.lang:2330 comp.lang.c:10229 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpda!athertn!ericb From: ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: But what about kernel printfs? Message-ID: <183@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM> Date: 19 May 88 00:47:48 GMT References: <12360@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4659@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <941@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <2219@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Reply-To: ericb@mango.UUCP (Eric Black) Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 26 In article <2219@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes: >The one that grates on me is the abuse of "it's." The use of the apostrophe >is perhaps the only rule in English that has no exceptions -- I certainly >don't know of any others. There's no excuse for someone intellegent enough ^^^^^^^^^^ >to program a computer to make a mistake using it. >-- >-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM or greg@ncr-sd I dunno, if their is any exceptions to that rule, than I dont now. Looks like you loose! <<< I think this one bothers me just as much, and it seems to happen more often (at least on USENET) Don't forget the ever-popular: Warning: something is hung (wont die); ps axl advised I guess they couldn't figure out how to put an apostrophe into a C string... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) -- Eric Black "Garbage in, Gospel out" Atherton Technology, 1333 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089 UUCP: {sun,decwrl,hpda}!athertn!ericb Domainist: ericb@Atherton.COM