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Nice thingsNice thingsPosted Oct 8, 2008 6:24 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Even further off-topic, but possibly a lucrative money maker by pr1268 Parent article: Stallman vs. Clouds (Linux Journal) The nice thing about human languages is that they can be nicely understood under such incredibly adverse conditions -- like here on LWN.net. Non-native speakers, complete absence of non-verbal cues, lots of grammatical and syntax errors -- and still we get the message across, sometimes. While the silly computer cannot even interpolate a stupid couple of parentheses when that is so obviously what you mean. And sometimes it is not even about the endpoints -- you cannot understand because the language doesn't give your enough context.
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My original post is missing a ')' Posted Oct 8, 2008 14:00 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] While the silly computer cannot even interpolate a stupid couple of parentheses when that is so obviously what you mean. Speaking of parentheses, did anyone else notice the missing close parenthesis needed on the "alot" inner bullet of my original post? I promise that was accidental; even I didn't notice it missing until long after I posted it. A programming language compiler would be screaming "MASSIVE FAIL" for such an omission.
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