6 Nov
2006
6 Nov
'06
5:28 p.m.
On Nov 6, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Max Noel wrote:
Indeed. Actually, I don't think you actually do that in any language except Emacs (and perhaps LaTeX).
Here in the US, at least when I was in high school in the late 80s, we were always taught to type two spaces after a sentence-terminating period (both on typewriters and computers). In the years since, I have surmised through reading and talking to people that this is a US- specific trait.
And Emacs and LaTeX are both products of US programmers, right? Richard Stallman and Leslie Lamport (and LaTeX based on Donald Knuth's TeX, another American). Could just be that's how they were taught...
-dan
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