{"id":1884,"date":"2009-04-03T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2009-04-03T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T03:40:22","slug":"precise-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/precise-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Precise language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a discussion in <a href=\"http:\/\/poncer.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/ponderances-shaken-not-stirred.html\">the comments at TSO&#8217;s place<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>>Reminds me of my System\/360 days when we had to suggest to the programmers that rather than ask the operator at the console to type &#8220;1 for Yes, 2 for No&#8221;, the program should request &#8220;Y for Yes, N for No&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>>And what&#8217;s wrong with &#8220;1&#8221; for Yes and &#8220;2&#8221; for No exactly? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>>One for yes and two for no is great if you have at least one position to the right of the decimal point.<\/p>\n<p>>&#8221;And what&#8217;s wrong with &#8216;1&#8217; for Yes and &#8216;2&#8217; for No exactly?&#8221; 1thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a discussion in the comments at TSO&#8217;s place: >Reminds me of my System\/360 days when we had to suggest to the programmers that rather than ask the operator at the console to type &#8220;1 for Yes, 2 for No&#8221;, the program should request &#8220;Y for Yes, N for No&#8221;. >And what&#8217;s wrong with &#8220;1&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/precise-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Precise language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[684],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","category-whatever","tag-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-uo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}