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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,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: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/19 Message-ID: <4ga1pa$1bj2@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140066349 distribution: world references: <4g56g9$1sk@newsbf02.news.aol.com> organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center reply-to: ncohen@watson.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4g56g9$1sk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi) writes: |> 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. I heard a proposal several years ago for a programming language based on Valley English. The programming language was named VALGOL. The Boolean constants were named Fer_Sure and As_If. -- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com