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From: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/17
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Date: 1996-02-17T00:00:00+00:00
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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!!!

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