New Year's Resolutions

[Tavis]

Okay, so we all make typographical errors.. It just so happened on my screen, the duplicated "a" was at the end of the line and wrapped to the next one. Do you have any idea how hard it is to catch everything on the first pass?

[norsenerd]

Sure. Just like I didn't catch ture.

[Foxchild]

*snerk* i probably do it all the time. Even if i see the error afterwards, i'll only edit it if it is a grevious error. i know i spelled "torture" as "torchure" or something like that in the O&M as a tv show thing, but it got the point accross!

[Tavis]

Yeah.. I usually leave typos alone unless it looks like it is really messing up the point or if I caught it just before or exactly when I click the button that submits the message. People online seem to have developed a good degree of tolerance toward bad writing, and it makes the process of sharing information slightly easier. On the other hand, anyone writing a computer program ought to know the merits of good (or at least consistent) spelling.

[Foxchild]

uuuhhh <!--emo&:rolleyes:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... lleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo--> guilty! <br>and I quote: "What do you mean you don't know what double means! I see Double right there! I defined that variable as Double, now why can't you see it! Its a double, a double!!!!!"<br>A few hours later: "Why aren't you working yet! it's a Double type variable! see, "d-o-u-b------" oh your kidding me..."<br>what had happened is I accidentaly refered to an variable type in java as a double, instead of Double. Java is case sensitive, and therefore if you cap, or un-cap a letter, it can change the entire program so that it doesn't work. those are the hardest errors to find.

[Elscire]

I can see where you are coming from on that, just a general spelling error can be hard enough to find.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Hrmm, if x = 65 then who gives a damn!?

[Tavis]

BSP: I do. I'd give it muchly if that x was something I wanted to know.

[norsenerd]

I do know the value of good spellign when it comes to programs. I use Matlab all the time and it requires good speling. BUT THIS ISN'T MATLAB!!!