``Faggot quotes''

2012
Still using ``faggot quotes''

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/quotes-in-html.html
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html

``Hello my name is I AM THE MOST FUCKING NGGER MATURE!"

``YEAH"

Not this nonsense again.

Read the original ASCII specification. It has nothing to do with fonts or how people drew glyphs as Mr mgk25 seems to imply. Granted many developers drew them this way, but it was because it was more aesthetically-pleasing.
ASCII only had seven bits to work with so some characters carried multiple meanings. I never see people complain when - is used as both a hyphen and a minus, or when people use it in place of the Unicode hyphen/minus/dash characters.
` was defined as both LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and GRAVE ACCENT. `This' and ``This'' are the proper quoting methods in ASCII. They pre-date T_EX and /prog/ and wherever else you may have seen them crop up. Typing 'this' is equivalent to using parentheses )like this) instead of (like this). If you're so obsessed with symmetry, use the Unicode quote characters (‘ and ’, “ and ”). Don't do 'this' then preach me to me when I use characters correctly.

CONTEMPORARY QUOTATION MARK USAGE CONSIDERED HARMFUL

This thread has ``offended'' me

>>2-999
You deserve to use this forever:
string x = ``ascii my anus'';

>>6
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No, I deserve to use a real language.

``faggot quotes'' are a tradition that deserves to die

>>8
What would we use for our m4 macros now?

>>9
changequote

faggot doubles

>>4

You are wrong.

Why would using a 45 degrees tilted " on the left side and a 0 degress " on the right side be correct?

You must choose.

" " or ``  ´´. A mix of them is wrong.

>>12
To save space by condensing multiple characters into one. ´ is and always has been the accute accent character. ` is the grave accent and the opening quotation mark character.
Why would anyone using - as a minus sign be correct when it's at least half an en too narrow? Why would anyone use / as fraction slash when it's a few degrees too vertical? Why would anyone use ' as an apostrophe when it's far too straight?
Of course using Unicode is unambiguous and correct, but even then they invent a clusterfuck of repeated glyphs and you don't know which one to use. Em dashes and en dashes and so on are fine. But do I want the vertical typewriter apostrophe, the punctuation apostrophe, or the letter apostrophe? Do I want the solidus (which isn't even a solidus), the fraction slash or the division slash? Unicode is a complete mess and I think they make half this stuff purposefully obtuse just to be twats.

`wizard quotes' are used in SELinux policy files too, u mad?

''Nigger quotes``

>>13
Except that all of it is bullshit, if you aren't an ascii americunt programmer.

>>16
ASCII was used worldwide. The original specification even makes a point to use certain symbols with care in international communications.

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Exactly.

Those afraid to go away from the past deserve C++ and x86 asm.

>>18
unlike x86 asm, C++ is fucking shit

x86 is king, your goy architectures are shit

>>19
x86 is like rubbing feces in a circumcision wound.

>>20
Feels good man

Check em.,

>>22
check 'em dubz ecks dee dee dee

>>23
wow, it took my like 7 seconds to figure that out.

>>13

You just broke your own answer with your first sentence. Let me quote it:

//To save space by condensing multiple characters into one.

So, why would anyone at least 6% sane save space in the end... Just to spend the hard-earned saved space in the beginning?

``Faggot quotes"
"Faggot quotes"

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