Re: Off-Topic Rant on ./, KDE, et al. (was: Re: CD-ROM drive)

["SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:

> Hmmm. No, I'm a non-American English type. That doesn't make me
> anti-American, although some Godzonians can't tell the two apart.

So you're just anti-Godzonian?

> Tsk, tsk. The chronology is all wrong. It was the idiosyncratic Noah
> Webster and his early 19th C  spelling book and later dictionary which
> led to the American spelling style. The rest of us just went on spelling
> things the way we always did. Nothing extraneous is added.
>
> A bit like calling someone who has used Unix since 1980 "anti-Microsoft"
> who "refuses to use Windows".

But it is possible for someone who started using Unix in 1980 to be both
anti-Evil-Empire and anti-Copier-Empire (Xerox's Smalltalk stuff that was
copied by X11 and Evil-Empire and Apple etc.).  You see, Microsoft started
in 1975, and if I'm not mistaken Smalltalk started in the 1970's.  In order
to impossibilitate the anachronism, you'd have to start using Unix in 1969.
Or maybe you could wait until Unix was recoded in C in 1970.

> [PS; Noah tried to make people write "picnick", "panick", etc. but that
> was too much for most Godzonians.]

One of my Japanese colleagues couldn't find www.imagemagick.org because he
didn't know it needed a k.