Subject: Re: NetBSD slogans for banner
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/05/1999 11:15:55
Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> writes:

> #      I just saw a .sig that said L* is for IQ's higher then 95.  I
> # couldn't let that go unchallenged.
> 
> It wasn't unchallenged -- in fact, it was challenged by itself:
> "IQs" is a plural, not a possessive.

`IQ' is an acryonym, and therefor an abbreviation. Hense the use of an
elide is appropriate.

Cheers,
Julian.

-- 
Stefan Kahrs in [Kah96] discusses the
   notion of completeness--programs which never go wrong can be
   type-checked--which complements Milner's notion of
   soundness--type-checked programs never go wrong [Mil78].