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Posted Nov 17, 2008 4:53 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: C++ by nix
Parent article: Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released (ars technica)

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and indentation style differences were ineluctable
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I found this statement interesting. In 45 years, I do not believe that I have *ever* heard anyone use the word "ineluctable". (Or "eluctable" for that matter.) Often I hear words that I have to look up to confirm the meaning or spelling. But almost always I am at least familiar with the *existence* of the word. This was something completely new. :-)

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Posted Nov 17, 2008 19:13 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

They call me the rogue wordsmith at work because I keep on bringing up
words like that. (Equally often I bring up perfectly normal words that
nobody recognises because I don't know how to pronounce them...)

(It wasn't really the right word anyway, but I only spotted that after
hitting publish.)

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Posted Nov 22, 2008 8:54 UTC (Sat) by gold (guest, #3971) [Link]

Off-topic, but the only other time I've encountered the word "ineluctable" was in Alfred O'Rahilly's "Electromagnetic Theory", an astounding good book originally published in 1938. O'Rahilly was quite the pompous writer, and a real pleasure to read.


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