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You lost me at the "slash"...but seriously, I recommend a slight rephrasing of Mike Reid's line as the official journal tag line: "lib fast, dev young, and leave good looking code". But then I've always been a sucker for such shenanigans. Roy On May 4, 2006, at 6:55 AM, David J. Fiander wrote: > K.G. Schneider wrote: > >> Particularly since one librarian's solidus is another librarian's >> virgule... > > "Solidus" is the name given to the glyph by ISO in it's character set > documents, as I recall, although I don't have a reference close at > hand. > Interestingly, Wikipedia claims that the solidus and the virgule are > typographically distinct, with the solidus being "significantly more > oblique than the virgule." But then, it goes on to say that we use > the > virgule in our URLs, since that's what we get on the keyboard.[1] > > [1] See the last paragraph of the section "English" in the entry > "Slash > (punctuation)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation) > #English > > -- > David J. Fiander > Digital Services Librarian >