Brevity by Dan Thompson for May 13, 2023

Soooo true!

Where’s your grammar young man?

In her room sleeping!

Let’s eat Grandma!

Let’s eat, Grandma!

Punctuation saves lives.

There is no stickler for syntax as persnickety as a compiler.

I’m sure there’s some AI out there that can check it for you.

Literally true. A missing semi-colon can totally change a program; more likely cause it to fail.

actually true: a misplaced semi-colon can (and did) play havoc in a server registry.

This is actually true. Punctuation is essential in all text-based programming languages and NOT optional. It’s not like standard English and varies from program to program.

Help:com …!

Very true. I transcribe braille both to and from print. One wrong or misplaced punctuation mark in the cell can throw the whole document off for the transcriber, proofreader and braille reader.

especially when you’re programming your program

Every time I question Mark, he won’t answer me.

Punctuation makes for bad code and crashes it…

often it’s essential

Hmm, does Grammerly work for code?