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greetings & kind regards
it did not occur to myself the Honorable Mr. MacCutchan was referring to the spelling/formatting of my message .
i do not abhor capital letters nor do i find sadistic pleasure in placing a space before the period . it is simply that i find it more pleasing to the eye .
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 😀
Mircea
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you are of course correct . it appears I or | or l or i must suffer the known sufferings of others for the sake of this minor pleasure . period .
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The problem with English is not that it borrows words and syntax from other languages, but that it chases those other languages down back alleys and mugs them for words and syntax.
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If all those foreigners had not been so keen to pillage our land we would have a nice pure language by now.
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Hmm, possibly so, but which language would that be?
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Well, certainly not what we now know as English.
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I've a suspicion that the keenness on pillaging was the other way round during an attempt to paint the entire world map pink.
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Well most nations/cultures have been doing it from time immemorial. In relative terms the Mongol and Roman empires were as big; only lack of technology stopped them at the borders of Europe/Asia./
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My pet peeve: individuals who use lower case letters for first person singular
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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i agree.
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I or | or l or i am sorry i am causing your kind self this irritation .
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Then demonstrate your sorryness by not doing it.
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I or | or l or i am ashamed to admit to some irritation .
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Would "code extract" be acceptable?
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thank you . yes a very good term . assuming of course it was indeed extracted .
kind regards
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extract is a very good term when used as noun.
but the terms snippet and sample would be understood equally as well.
def: noun
something extracted.
a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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You remind me of a high school English teacher I had (circa 1981) who railed against the over-use of the word "awesome" at that time.
modified 29-Dec-23 12:16pm.
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I'm with him/her on awesome - the Oxford vs Cambridge boat race is oarsome <groan>
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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BernardIE5317 wrote: i have finally found what i believe is a superior term
Not that I see.
From google
Specimen: an example of something such as a product or piece of work, regarded as typical of its class or group
snippet: a small piece or brief extract.
The correct usage for the second would be when one presents code which cannot, by itself, successfully compile.
And to my mind, as with the definition, implies that is 'small'.
Consider the 'specimen' in the following
Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia[^]
"with the largest known specimen being 33.6 m (110.2 ft) long and the largest weighted specimen being 190 tonnes"
That is using the word to refer to an entire animal. (Not small.) And it implies the possibility that other specimens might exist which could be larger.
Following is a paper related to programming which is using 'specimen' which fits the definition above also but which presumably also provides code that can compile. (Pay wall I believe but synopsis provides information.)
A specimen of parallel programming: parallel merge sort implementation: ACM Inroads: Vol 1, No 4[^]
modified 29-Dec-23 12:14pm.
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Or a specimen may simply be something (whole or in part) to be studied, examined, or tested. They have jars for that.
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Exactly. Imagine going for a job interview and being asked to provide a specimen ...
(Maybe it's just a UK thing, but the above phrase almost inevitably implies of wee.)
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At least that wouldn't be misogynist as well as weird.
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DerekT-P wrote: Maybe it's just a UK thing
And in the US.
But some jobs do require that.
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