VSoft ad on CP
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Baconbutty wrote:
And don't start a sentence with the word "And"......
That particular style rule is challenged quite brilliantly by the young black student character in the movie "Finding Forrester" with Sean Connery playing the eponymous title role. He points out numerous usages of "And.." sentences from authors all over the spectrum of creative writing then makes the case that these usages form the base for disputing that proper usage need not always be completely compliant with the rules of formal grammar. Naturally, we do depend on formal rules in our main mode of expression. Idiom fails in software if it is not grammatically correct.
The use of "and" at the beginning of a sentence indicates to me that the writer can't join two sections of prose together in an understandable way. They take the easy way out and write two sentences, much like a 5 year old would.
I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)
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The most ridicoluos ad line I have ever seen. I just saw an ad of VSoft on CP telling: "At VSoft we hire chimps to write build scripts... so you don't have to." Can you expect a software company calling its developers as code monkeys, thats just stupid. And they are proud of this advertising compaign as some mr. Brent is saying on his blog[^] God help the poor devs.
Its never over !
Sounds like an efficient way to eliminate job candidates with no sense of humor.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke