Re: Quick questions...

In article <1130707900.048712.58940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
vishnuvyas <vishnuvyas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>But thats still the tip of the iceberg, if you want a career in
>programming you have to know a whole bunch of languages from purely
>declarative ones like SQL to a bunch of domain specific languages that
>no-one uses. Also you have to deal with monstrocities like standards
>compliance, compiler issues, optimisiations, portability and friends..

[OT]

I suspect you did not mean to write that friends are a form of
monstrosity ;-)


[It is an obscure grammatical point. When you use a comma list in English
then you do not put a comma between the second last item and the 'and'.
Hence as you used a comma list and there is no comma before the 'and',
the 'friends' becomes a seperate item on the list, instead of grouping
together with "portability".]
--
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge. -- Eric Sosman
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