Re: A red tide in the affairs of men.

On 5 Aug 2005 03:15:51 GMT, Alan J Rosenthal said:
> Damian James <djames@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>ObLateralDrift: I always wondered why m$ would name an operating
>>system after the keystrokes in vi for switching two characters.
>
> Jesus[1], those two letters had many more existing interpretations than that.

I see your Jesus and raise you an Elvis.

> I imagine the folks at http://www.extremeprogramming.org were rather peeved,
> for one. (That's the first conflict which came to mind when I first heard
> the letters from microsoft.)

Maybe I just make 2-letter transposition typos unusally often or something,
but I do seem to be typing those two characters several times a day, which
is what made it remarkable in an off-hand way.

But anyway yes, long before I heard of the OS, I'd noted the same coincidence
with the characters there. Probably because I type it so often.

> (I think there should be a horror movie entitled "The Letters From Microsoft".)

Gah.

--Damian

[1] NMF
.

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