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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: But what about kernel printfs?
Summary: spelling failure
Message-ID: <177@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 20:54:25 GMT
References: <12360@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4659@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <5553@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <5553@cup.portal.com>, doug-merritt@cup.portal.com writes:
> 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.

And even less excuse to fail to spell "intelligent" correctly.






Clayton E. Cramer