It’s a well-known convention that web-logs should proceed chronologically up the page. This means that visitors don’t have far to scroll to find where they were up to last time. That this is a convention is clear from Parenting Ahead, where this layout is explicitly rejected, because this thing (whatever it is) isn’t a web-log. Further proof that the whole web-log thing might be getting a bit stale: people (sample size of one, I know) trying to distance themselves from the terminology.
Anyway, good though this anti-chronological approach might be good for the current stuff, I’ve decided that it makes more sense to put archived material back into the order that hundreds of years of Western tradition dictates. Unfortunately, I haven’t been producing my material in a way that means this transformation will be as easy to effect as I might like. A Perl script will eventually suffice, no doubt.
Nick Maclaren on comp.std.c:
It [a conforming C compiler] can also issue the general-purpose warning upon failing to find a syntax error or constraint violation:
You have attempted to compile what you seem to think is a C program. This is your first warning; do not expect a second.
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