Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Tim Tyler]

Alan Balmer <albalmer at att.net> wrote or quoted:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green

> >I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext
> >only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML.
> >
> >Program listings are much more readable on my website.
> 
> My copy of javac seems to prefer plain text, and so do I ;-)

Plain text is a badly impoverished medium for explaining things in.

For one thing, code on my web site tends to get syntax highlighted.
There's no way I could do that in plain text.
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