From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <34738872.783@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 291122617 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <34722BF5.5B6D@le.ac.uk> <34733BEC.991E4298@itsnet.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matt Corey wrote: > > C: The power and functionality of assembly language with the > usability and readability of assembly language. ;-) That's on a good day; the C preprocessor has less power and functionality than any macro language I've used in decades. And some C constructs are more arcane that assembler language. OTOH, I remember defending a particualr C construct against the charge that it was opaque and poor practice. > Also, it's Ada, not ADA. That's the people who approve your > toothbrushes. :-) Yes, but see below. > in Tcl or Awk. Shouldn't that be AWK, since it's named after the authors? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org