Y’all Suck at Apostrophes

Sean O’Driscoll is on to us programmers. Check out his apostrophe exposé. Yep. Our systems suck, big time. We can’t even handle apostrophes correctly.

Rocket Science

  1. Send a man to the moon. Check.
  2. Shoot down a satellite. Check.
  3. Mars rover. Check.
  4. Hubble. Check.

Non-Rocket Science

  1. Display an apostrophe character. ***FAIL***

UPDATE!!!

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2 Responses to “Y’all Suck at Apostrophes”

Weiqi Gao Says:

Has anyone whose name contains an apostrophe been to the moon?

Robert Tables Says:

And this happens: http://xkcd.com/327/

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