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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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it’s raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms

Richard Dawkins somewhere in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" says:

"It is raining instructions out there; it’s raining programs; it’s raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. This is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn’t be any plainer if it were raining floppy disks."

Should " it’s raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms" be like "it’s raining tree-growing and fluff-spreading algorithms"? I think the punctuation of the original sentence is not correct. Am I right?

  

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I agree that the last comma seems superfluous.

  • I agree that the last comma seems superfluous.
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I agree that the last comma seems superfluous.

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