From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87pp7x2jav.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87d23s4nt4.fsf@debian.uxu> <7e8ddf8f-163a-4d16-9ce2-25b0cb3f35aa@googlegroups.com> <87sicny7zm.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <874mp3clqi.fsf@wanadoo.es> <20150330094432.GA30418@tuxteam.de> <87a8yuy6wn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427725217 32200 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2015 14:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 16:20:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaXm-0004aL-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:19:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaXm-0007U8-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaWQ-0005nT-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:18:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaWL-0003fH-PO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:18:34 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaWL-0003es-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcaWA-0003XG-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 65-110-216-75.cpe.pppoe.ca ([65.110.216.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:18:18 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 65-110-216-75.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:18:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65-110-216-75.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmlRhb6p41DNzU7b/YZEt97jUTU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103449 Archived-At: >> Do you know any Mathematician that is paid by the hour? ;-) > Or that is forced to use differential geometry to solve his problem, > whatever it is, because the enterprises only has other specialists of > differential geometry, and they are easy to find for hiring. Along the same lines, I don't know many programmers whose code is never passed to a compiler/interpreter but is instead only read by other human beings. Stefan