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  1. 02-15-2008 #16
    Mario F.
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    I'm totally confused by now.

    Had to send a proposal to a book author this morning. I hope she either misses it or finds it to be correct. The word can be located in 5 different places on the document. Oh well.
    Originally Posted by brewbuck:
    Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
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    Excluding words as being non-British means they are British?
    No, "as" meaning "due to them being" here. Of course, the British equivalents are ardour, colour, and favour.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    >> No, "as" meaning "due to them being" here.
    Ah. I see now. What a crazy language, huh?

    I'd say not to worry about it too much, Mario. The meaning will be understood.

    >> I'm totally confused by now.
    You're not the only one!
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