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by gcoakes 1070 days ago
I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in". So, I guess 3. Joy and Odin are obvious since they have shown up here recently.

Totally tangential, but am I the only one that was taught to put punctuation inside of quotes and now despises that rule?

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If you're referring to the period at the end of the sentence, I don't like that rule either.

Seems more natural to have the period after the closing quote, at least in cases like this sentence of yours from above:

>I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in".

But I think there may be cases where period inside and before closing quote may seem better, e.g. if quoting what someone said, like a quoted sentence inside another sentence.

But I'm not an English grammar expert.

It was kind of a trick question.

4: Small(talk), Joy, Pro(log) and D (from Odin).

>and D

The D language, that is.

https://dlang.org

>Joy and Odin are obvious

I had explicitly excluded Odin above. :)