Re: collective nouns -- Re: Optimal programming advice

The main divide in this thread seems to be regional, or
based on national origin. It should be remembered that
citizens of Commonwealth countries tend to refer to
"government" in the plural as well. (I tried using "data"
as plural and "datum" as the singular for a while and
all people I spoke with thought is strange. I gave up
when I noticed that I found it sounded odd myself when
someone else used that distinction. I think the US
usage is steadily eliminating "datum" entirely.)

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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