Hacker Writing Style

> It may well be that future historians of literature will see in it a revival of the great tradition of personal letters as art.

Ah what might have been ...

I have found that hacker/programmer writing style tends to be grammatically correct and with complete sentences, as a rule of thumb.

As far as I remember, the distinction between "typesetter" quotation and "logical" quotation appears in computerized typesetting. In traditional paper typesetting, a quote was kerned together with a period (or a comma) into a single character, so that quote is above, not before or after the period.

I recently watched David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, and given his history in semantic research, and I would equate his style with these ideas. I don't know if this concept of a hacker writing style is a new phenomenon, but more a bi-product of mathematical aspects of language understanding.

It's also getting quite common so see just:

/flame

I can only imagine that's coming from the html-style metadata they are showing in these exactly, but made a lot easier to type for non-hackers. I rather like it myself, even.

still surprisingly accurate, despite being a decade or so out-of-date.