Re: private type discriminants ignored?

[nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)]

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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:20:56 -0800, matthew_heaney@acm.org (Matthew
Heaney) wrote:

> In article <Es8xLp.MG0@world.std.com>, robertduff@world.std.com (Robert A
> Duff) wrote:
> 
> (start of quote)
> On the other hand, my hand was griping more than gripping.  ;-)  If
> anybody complains that Ada is too complicated, show them English.
> (end of quote)
> 
> Funny, in his critique of the Green language, Dijkstra remarked that "the
> small list of 72 [reserved] words" is a "vocabulary of more than 10 percent
> of Basic English!"
> 
> My question to Edsger is, 10 percent of Basic English, compared to what?
> 
> 

I'm not Edsger Dijkstra, but I'll take a shot.

Basic English is an attempt to create an easy-to-learn common language.
It is English with a simplified syntax and a small vocabulary that could
be used for most everyday interactions. All verbs are regular, all
plurals are formed the same way, and so on. For example, one would say
"I goed" rather than "I went".

Information extracted from my brain. It got there from reading Websters
Collegiate Dictionary (1954), which I don't have available as I write
this. This process may introduce errors. However, a quick web search
finds

http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/cko/begr.html

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"You empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

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