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From: munck@mindspring.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language
Date: 1997/08/10
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Organization: Mill Creek Systems LC
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 comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.unix.programmer
Date: 1997-08-10T19:47:06+00:00
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On 8 Aug 1997 15:45:32 GMT, z007400b@bc.seflin.org (Ralph Silverman)
wrote:

>	internationalization of algorithmic language
> ...
>	thus loop-break would be ...
>		~<>
> ...
>	static storage is
>		2>-<
>
> (much of a similar nature deleted)

Is it *possible* that he's never heard of APL?  Or thinks
that Japanese has an ">" character?  The only other way
I can think of to make C even more unreadable and 
unmaintainable is to allow each programmer to make up
his own character set, syntax, and semantics and change
them throughout the program.

Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC