On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Alex Page wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > I have heard Mr Pratchet's name cited as the guilty party for the
> > increased use of footnotes, especially as comic asides.
> I'd claim that Mr Pratchett, as with so many other things, stole
> that one from Mr Adams...
I blame the collective authors of Programming Perl for comic footnotes. I
do otoh try and include extra information in my footnotes that would
otherwise obscure the text of what I was trying to say. Which is the
point of footnotes after all.
Later.
Mark.
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