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From: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu
Subject: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?
Date: 1996/07/24
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 ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>smosha@most.fw.hac.com (Stephen M O'Shaughnessy) writes:
>
>(b) The Living Bible IS NOT A TRANSLATION!  It is openly and unashamedly
>    a *paraphrase*.

amen (and a lousy one IMHO)

>consider the current Jewish Publication Society
>translation of the Tanach, and a really professional Christian translation
>such as The Revised English Bible or the International Version.  Despite
>being produced by disjoint committees with radically different
>theological biases; some of the sentences are word for word identical.

>I think that what this shows is that it *is* possible to do a very good
>job of translating between languages in two unrelated families 2500+
>years apart in dramatically different cultures *if* you take hundreds of
>scholars, hundreds of years, and build up a "translation technology",
>and libraries full of information about the cultural background.

And if you include enough footnotes to double the amount of text.

[although this started out as a religious discussion and so discussing
the Bible seems on topic I will try to make it even more on-topic]

It also shows (by analogy) that it is possible to do good programming
in any language as long as you work at it.

>Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ???
>Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.

Robert