Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)
You top posted on purpose. Didn't you? Ahh, you rat bastard! ;)
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:34:05PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>
> 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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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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