Re:Cottage Computer Programming
by 10ren on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:51PM
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Yes, sorry; I thought it was a standard abbreviation. Or maybe I've looked at too many rental ads. Perhaps there's a better one?
I guess "per month", "/month" and "monthly" all work well, though I'd like a shorter one. Maybe "pm" or "/m". Or perhaps convert it to years, and use "pa". I'm fussing over this a bit, but I agree with pg that in some cases, conciseness helps readability.
Re:Cottage Computer Programming
by eru on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @05:16AM
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Yes, though Paul Graham's notion of conciseness is not the number of characters, but more like the number of `symbols' or words. So `monthly' should be fine by this measure.
I guess "per month", "/month" and "monthly" all work well, though I'd like a shorter one. Maybe "pm" or "/m". Or perhaps convert it to years, and use "pa". I'm fussing over this a bit, but I agree with pg that in some cases, conciseness helps readability.