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: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: Spaceman Spiff Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/29 Message-ID: <347FBAF2.7225@flash.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293586091 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3471428A.6193@erdw.ethz.ch> <64sql2$k0@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <3471F184.7924@mWilden.com> <64vc2j$bbt$1@helios.crest.nt.com> <64vpcn$ni7@corn.cso.niu.edu> <34738697.B05B4B49@itsnet.com> <347FB072.399F@escape.ca> Organization: Me! Reply-To: csweber@flash.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: D. Ross wrote: > > Matt Corey wrote: > > > > The Java v. Ada v. C v. C++ v. Pascal v. Tcl v. Forth v. Scheme v. Eiffel v. > > Sather v. Awk v. Perl v. Basic v. B v. CLOS ( breath ) v. Flavors v. RPG v. > > COBOL v. Fortran v. Clipper v. Modulax v. ObjectiveC v. PL/1 v. PLM v. > > Assembler v. Rexx v. Smalltalk v. Python language war has now added English. > > We should get Mr. Stroustrup to re-do English... and call it English++. > > Just think how efficient we'd all be if everything we said was > polymorphic, overloaded, object-oriented and templatized! Oh yeah! I'd just love to overload some nouns! Having several potential meanings for gault would make life easier. :-) -Scotty