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From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/19
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> >Yes indeed: you get a language that is large, ungainly, full of
> >irregularities and historical oddities.  You also get a language
> >that in much of the world is the de facto standard for commercial
> >communication.  I remember once standing in the lobby of a
> >hotel in Copenhagen watching a French visitor trying to talk
> >to the desk clerk; since one spoke no French and the other
> >no Danish, they settled on English.
> >--
> >                               --Andrew Koenig
> >                                 ark@research.att.com
>
> I think someone out there should volunteer to write an English compiler.
> One that
> supports all dialects on all platforms!  :)
>
> Excerpt of code from a "valley person":
>
> If, like -- omigod!, the big red cadillac costs more than the bitchin'
> BMW, like, buy the BMW!!!

or even:     buy the Beamer!!!

> ENG-E-FATSYNERR, Fatal syntax error, "like -- omigod!"
> ENG-F-VALNOTSUP, Valley dialect not supported in this version.
>
>

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