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I've never seen the advantages of programming put so succinctly! Also, you can say "shit" on HN. Mark Bao: earmuffs!

• patio11 17y ago
  I'm not quite as puritanical as I was when I was younger, but I still don't like swearing for emphasis and try to keep it to a minimum. If you had heard me speaking you might have heard one of those Bugs Bunny equivalents best transliterated as "strangled cry of frustration" or, perhaps, $(#$"). (Besides, more fun to type that way.)
  • spydez 17y ago
    If you don't like swearing for emphasis, I would suggest formatting your sentences in a way that doesn't require your readers to swear for you. Most people will, after pausing to wonder why the shift numbers are there, just replace them with their favorite four letter word, which makes your sentence rather disjointed to read... Read, pause, substitute, continue. English is wonderfully verbose and expressive. You can emphasize without pretend swearing.
  • sharkbrainguy 17y ago
    I didn't know what was going on when I read it. I thought it was perl. Maybe just use an inoffensive word like "garbage" instead ... but with emphasis.
    • patio11 17y ago
      I thought it was perl. Then my cry of strangled frustration succeeded better than I could possibly have hoped for. (I actually spent an hour trying to come up with executable perl code from them. Turns out that, jokes aside, its hard with just the characters above the numbers.)