Language and English

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Fri Jan 4 11:51:42 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Franke [mailto:Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de]

> Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in
> the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after
> a period. There's even a very old 'text beautyfier' for DOS which
> inserted this (for my eyes) stupid spaces. Well, I guess CC is no
> only the hardwarae :=)

I think that it's supposed to help the eye differentiate between space between words and space between sentences.

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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