Satoshi's punctuation style with the double-space after the dot is a distinctive feature of his writing, used in both the official Bitcoin publication and on forum posts.
Looking at the HTML source of that review, you can notice this exact punctuation style.
Pretty much anyone who learned how to write in the age of typewriters double spaces after a period, this is not a unique trait for anyone in their mid 30's or up. Hell I still do it, it's deeply ingrained.
As far as I know, many public school typing classes still teach double-spaces. It isn't until you get to things like classes in journalism tracks at universities that the concept is dispensed with.
This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods? I recognize the historical origin (typewriters), but I was taught this way and I'm "only" 24.
> This bit of the article also confused me. Who doesn't double-space after periods?
I don't. Every style guide I've seen has recommended against it in any medium that is going to be presented in non-fixed-width type, and IME its a lot less distracting to have single-space-after-sentence-ending-punctuation in a fixed-width font than double-space-after in a proportional font, so I've pretty much abandoned the practice entirely except in very narrow circumstances (e.g., I'll usually still do it in source code comments.)
I think I first started adopting this practice around 1990 (about the same time I was finishing high school.)
I use double spaces because it is a harmless habit that typesetting systems correct when it isn't appropriate. In fixed-width code, it looks better imho, so I continue to use it there.
Since typesetting systems remove it anyway though, there isn't any reason to do it when using them.
I don't. Horrible habit. I wrote a good number of macros to strip the superfluous spaces from text I want to read back in the days of fixed-width fonts. However it's so common that I don't think it's useful as an identifier - miuch better to look for SIPs.
I could never imagine the real Satoshi not capitalizing his I's and the first letter of every sentence. At least I've never seen him do that in other writings, even on forums like bitcointalk.org.
Satoshi's punctuation style with the double-space after the dot is a distinctive feature of his writing, used in both the official Bitcoin publication and on forum posts.
Looking at the HTML source of that review, you can notice this exact punctuation style.