Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)
Well that's the problem, isn't it? Karsten (and yourself, variously)
isn't really "putting up" with it, now is he?
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:11:03PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 03:10:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>> > but this practice is strongly deprecated.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Hell does that mean?
>>
>> Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary has this to say...
>>
>> dep-re-cate 1. to express mild or regretful disapproval of 2.
>> DEPRECIATE
>>
>> I "strongly mildly dissapprove" of that quoting convention! Huh?
>
>"deprecate" is a common technical term (hang out at the IETF for a
>while). When a standard is trached, it is marked "deprecated" so
>people know that though they might have to put up with it from others,
>they shouldn't implement or use it themselves.
>
>Perhaps Karsten should have used "discouraged" rather than deprecated,
>but close enough.
>
>
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