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On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 9:09 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The original had them - it was only when I read it last night before posting that I noticed that when the Authory tool had grabbed it they got lost. No idea why - I'll ask the site owners.
I have no doubt you punctuated properly when you and/or Susan first
wrote it. I mean, it would have felt at least as weird to write it
without apostrophes as it is to read it. But I figured maybe you
didn't have the *original* original anymore. It wasn't too long ago I
think you were asking if anyone happened to have saved some old stuff
of yours from a now-defunct site, because you couldn't find the
material yourself.
The removal of apostrophes smells suspiciously like a botched handling
of single-quotes. Maybe they needed to put the content into
single-quote-delimited strings and the escaping went bad (especially
if the data had to pass through multiple interpreters with clashing
escape mechanisms).
Here is another place the article shows up without apostrophes, in PDF form:
https://andabe.altervista.org/ILE/07.08.The-Seven-Deadly-Sins-of-ILE.pdf
Looks like that PDF was generated from content retrieved from the old
ibmsystemsmag.com, which suggests some version of the article lost its
apostrophes well before Authory got its hands on it.
And speaking of your article becoming a de facto IBM reference
document, I saw this:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6428061
which says it was modified this past March. I imagine that is when
they updated the link to your article.
John Y.
midrange.com
