You can occasionally pick up that someone is a dev by nonstandard use of quotes / parens in written English, like foo, bar, and "baz".
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(Descriptionists on the other hand say "Well if programmers choose to write that way because of cultural drift well that's English, deal.")
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As others have mentioned, that’s a peculiarly American stylistic rule that was a rule of thumb in hot metal typesetting and got out of hand.
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Exactly. I always want to write things like "The man said 'The sky is blue.'".
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yeah and in addition to that that it's STUPID
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The period is okay to go inside the parens. (It is the semi-colon that needs to be outside them);
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I generally used the rule that it depends whether the period is part of the quotation. That seems to be the British English rule.
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prescriptionists vs. software engineers is peak pedantry
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Punctuation goes outside the quotes in British English. So therefore all programmers are British.
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I think that's an American usage style (period inside quotes.) Not common elsewhere.
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