Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!lwall From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: ***Asterisks*** Message-ID: <900@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 12:50:00 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.900 Posted: Fri Mar 9 12:50:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 00:37:27 EST References: <5500001@hpfclg.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 13 In article <5500001@hpfclg.UUCP> dp@hpfclg.UUCP writes: >**Nothing** **irritates** **me** **more** **than** **asterisks** >**placed** **around** **words** **to** **emphasize** **them**. >**It** **only** **makes** **the** **text** **more** **difficult** >**to** **read**. If NOTHING irritates you more than @i(that), you must be the //happiest\\ person in the whole _w_o_r_l_d. 'Twere nice if cultural differences were our only differences. Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall