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> Your use of the ASCII character sequences `` and '' as substitutes for “ and ” are antiquated at best 30 year old thing does thing that was common 30 years a
by benj111 4y ago
> Your use of the ASCII character sequences `` and '' as substitutes for “ and ” are antiquated at best
30 year old thing does thing that was common 30 years ago.
You know the book uses outdated terminology and probably doesn't use colour.
- kragen 4y agoyeah, and i think it's really unfortunate that we ended up with unix aping the misguided font choices of microsoft windows on this point instead of microsoft windows adopting the superior choice previously made by unix
- teddyh 4y agoI was not criticizing the book, I was criticizing the transcription on the web page. And a web page is continually published, so it is perfectly reasonable to expect it to be kept up to date enough to at least not look terrible on modern systems.