NLP followup

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Nov 13 18:17:47 GMT 2007


On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:35:09PM +0000, Aidan Samuel wrote:

> Couldn't agree more. I never understood why "they" thought 80-col
> wrapping was necessary. If the creating program was capable of
> wrapping text, why wasn't the displaying program?

Where you're going wrong is that the creating program *wasn't* always
capable of auto-wrapping.  It was up to the user to hit Enter at
appropriate points.

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David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness


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