On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 19:03:10 -0400, "Jeff Higgins"
<oohiggins@yahoo.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

Granted  mindprod.com is an eclectic site which covers buying computer
equipment, gay rights,  the environment, human rights, animal rights,
politics , ethics and religion. However, the Java glossary section of
it is one of the largest sources of lore on Java programming you will
find outside the Sun docs.  I don't try to tell you everything, just
the basics and the surprises.  I aim to get a newbie up to speed as
fast as possible, where they can read the JavaDocs without feeling
overwhelmed.

Every day I change the image of the day on the home page. It is
usually some plant, animal or landscape celebrating the diversity and
beauty of life on earth.  If you click it, it will take you to art.com
where you can buy it as a photographic print, optionally framed.

You can see the images I have used in past at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/artcom.html
and
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/artcomextras.html

Today's image of canola celebrates the legal victory of  Percy
Schmeiser, an Alberta canola  farmer who was harassed outrageously by
Monsanto.  Monsanto sued _him_ when pollen from their genetically
modified fields contaminated his organic fields destroying his strains
developed over decades.

Monsanto is a global bully.  I hope something terrible happens to
them. They stole the entire plant genome of Iraq and now force
penniless farmers there to buy their terminator gene seeds.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 05:04:16 -0700 (PDT), Chase Preuninger
<chasepreuninger@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

Programmers tend to be proud of poor spelling and grammar. They think
of those skills as feminine or frivolous.  However, they are necessary
skills for programmers because:

1. computer languages require perfect, or at least consistent
spelling.

2. on a team, you will drive people nuts if you don't use properly
spelled variable names because they won't be able to type them
correctly.

3. computer languages require perfect grammar.

4. Computer programs tend to do subtle things.  You need to be able to
explain to other programmers what they are in the comments.. You can't
get away with shorthand that only you can understand.

5. If you are asking for help, and you make a large number of errors
in your grammar or spelling, it may be taken as disrespectful.
Further, you will may be perceived as too stupid to bother with.
I get emails from soldiers with hundreds of spelling and grammatical
errors.  I can't help but feel contempt for these people even before
they start attempting to justify why they kill children.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/feedback/peace.html

6. One way of looking at it is not that your spelling and grammar
skills are non-existent, but that you speak a private dialect that
nobody else understands.  You are quite likely perfectly accurate in
applying its unwritten rules of spelling and grammar.  I recall my 3
younger sisters devised a private language they used prior to entering
school.  I was worried no one would understand them at all when they
reached school age. Even I understood only a part of it. However, it
took only a month or two once they entered school to learn standard
English.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 05:04:16 -0700 (PDT), Chase Preuninger
<chasepreuninger@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/spelling.html