On 2009-05-01, GreyCloud <cumulus@xxxxxxxx> claimed:
> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Tim Smith belched out
>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>
>>> A well-known COLA computer scientist (who I'll leave unnamed for in case
>>> people want to have fun guessing who it was) recent blogged that gnote
>>> has added support for 6 languages, and none of them were C#, implying
>>> this is a blow to Microsoft and/or mono.
>>>
>>> What gnote actually did was add some translations, for Spanish, Czech,
>>> Thai, and some others. (And it wasn't six...but that's a separate
>>> issue).
>>>
>>> How does one get to be a computer scientist without knowing that
>>> localizing software to human languages has nothing to do with supporting
>>> programming languages?
>>
>> I dunno, why don't you tell us, Beavis?
>>
>
> Actually, I checked out the blog. And if one reads carefully, there is
> a comma in there that separates the two.
> In one instance the claim of Gnote supports 6 more languages, (gnote
> being a note type of program which means multiple
> locales) and that it no longer supports C# (mono in this instance). One
> could also replace the comma and use 'and'.
> After reading the many sites related to the topic, it appears that Tim
> is looking for any way possible to discredit the poster,
> hoping that the rest would not catch on to the subtle implications.
Timmy is praticing for an upcoming half-season of South Park, where I
heard they'll be featuring him as the chief retard for the duration,
pushing Jimmy into the background until sometime in the future. So I
wouldn't be too hard on him. It's all part of training for his acting
career.
Doin' a good job, ain't he?
--
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
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