Re: [dev] Convert Suckless Projects Documentation to a More Simple Language

Kris is perfectly right, it's obviously satire. So Twain must have
seen this coming.

On 6/17/10, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> wrote:
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> On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma
>> wrote:
>>>> English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A
>>>> bit like C++ to C,
>>>> really.
>>> You made my day.
>> then i suggest reading this article:
>> http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
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> Mark Twain is always a pleasure to read, but I think the general
> practice of the English language has become considerably more
> "slipshod and systemless" since his time.
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> Complexity is not a function of the number of features. Some features
> exist only because complexity was _removed_ from the underlying system.
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Received on Thu Jun 17 2010 - 11:20:20 UTC