[patch] doc/*.texi: Fix typos and follow spelling conventions.
Phil Edwards
phil@jaj.com
Tue Dec 17 15:11:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:25:33PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
>
> Or perhaps "This document is incomplet and and inkorrekt, if nothing
> else in that it is expected to include a paradoxical sentence that
> may only be a correct statement if words in it itself are misspelled."
The draft C++ standard IIRC actually used something like, "This document
is incomplet, inkorrekt, and iNcoNSISteNt." The wacky capitalization in
the third part made it more clear that humor was involved.
Phil
--
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
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