THE ADVENT OF ``FAGGOT QUOTES''

Whence did these ``faggot quotes'' came? What is the origin of these seemingly homoerotic typographic characters. And who continues to perpetuate their use? Is their a darker conspiracy behind their rise to center stage--are they used to subliminally delimit occult directives in some sort of ``MK- Ultra''-esque mind reprogramming campaign? It seems like everyone in /prague/ is using them now, lest they be ridiculed and mistaken for a foreigner to this board. I for one am somewhat taken aback by this ardent faggotry and I demand an immediate explanation.

One thing I know about them is that they are widely used in GNU "the man" pages.

>>1
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-3.html
``I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.''

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All I know is that they're LaTeX and POSIX quotes.

Homophobe.

>>6
More like apostrophobe, amirite?

>>7
Please go back from where you came.

>>8
I come from the internet. Your suggestion makes no sense.

>>9
Go back to the internet, this is /prague/.

>>10
I think you mean /pro\/g\//

>>11
/\/jp\/ro\/g\//

>>12
/\/jp\/ro\/g\//