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| location | Charlotte, NC | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | Apr 12 '12 at 16:32 | |
| stats | profile views | 5 |
A long time programmer with lots of IBM and supplier-to-IBM experience using C/C++, Rexx, APL/2, assembler. Finally excaped from the Blue-o-sphere to work in the transportation industry creating firmware for gate access systems for containerized freight yards.
Translation: tons of not-the-way-anybody-else-does-it software development and experience writing software that lives somewhere between BIOS and applications. I've probably written well over a million lines of Rexx, my favorite language. And I am also an opinionated snob about editors. Them what aren'tderived from Xedit or look like VisualSlickEdit are junk.
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Apr 12 |
answered | Is “for all who” grammatical? |
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Mar 19 |
answered | What do you call someone who has a 'problem' |
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Mar 14 |
answered | What is the meaning of “drill our way out”? |
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Mar 14 |
answered | “Watched them get married” vs “watched them getting married” |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Mar 8 |
awarded | Student |
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Mar 8 |
comment |
Change of Number(?) for “does” used with “this” This is the valid answer, sadly, based on rules that are, as throughout English, capricious and arbitrary. |
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Mar 8 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Mar 8 |
accepted | Change of Number(?) for “does” used with “this” |
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Mar 8 |
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Change of Number(?) for “does” used with “this” Silly Wiki, won't let you easily enter multiple paragraph comments. <br><br>Auxiliary verbs in general sound like a grammarian explaining away phlogiston. |
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Mar 8 |
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Change of Number(?) for “does” used with “this” @Robusto - Having had to remind myself of what "auxiliary" verbs I note that rearranging the sentence and, because you should be able to ignore the auxiliary verb, yields "This need to come out." Which, is, of course, "wrong". |
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Mar 8 |
answered | What is a good term for someone who refuses to debate an issue ab initio? |
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Mar 8 |
asked | Change of Number(?) for “does” used with “this” |
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Jan 20 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 20 |
answered | Work-safe (but not too formal) salutation to start an e-mail to address a group of people |
