Why no static GLIB/GLIB2 libraries?

[Carl Karsten]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> 
>>Gerrit said:
>>
>>>Actually Gerrit is a male and
>>
>>Yeah, I had always suspected such :D
>>
>>
>>
>>>Corinna is a female name,
>>
>>Again I suspected this.
>>However, oddly, you identified your own gender, but for Corinna, you
>>merely noted that by custom,
>>that name is assigned to females. You did not state the fairly obvious,
>>but never-the-less important fact
>>that this Corinna is indeed female.
> 
> 
>   No, you've misread how this slightly complicated english language
> construction is meant to be read:
> 
> 
>>>Actually Gerrit is a male and Corinna is a female name,
> 
> 
> that is to say (use monospaced font to read this:)
> 
> 
>            /  Gerrit is a male    \
>   Actually<        (and)           >name.
>            \  Corinna is a female /
> 
> 
> Or IOW, it should be read as "Actually Gerrit is a male name and Corinna is a
> female name", but we elide the repetition of "name".  Think of it like
> associativity in maths:  (a + b) x c == (a x c) + (b x c).  It could also be
> written:
> 

19. The bus driver ate the steak with the teacher.
20. The bus driver ate the steak with the knife.

http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~jlm/papers/McCStJohnTaraban89.pdf - "SENTENCE 
COMPREHENSION AND PDP"

Not only is this 25 pages of interesting reading (at least to people who use ascii 
art to diagram sentence structure), but the pdf is weird - it is like a 
combination of scan image and text.

enjoy.

^C