From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:34:04 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-07-25T15:34:04-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bdd13a5-44d4-4940-bdba-22b7e3a718fe@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1ea2ce62-20e0-47f9-adc6-f60c569a594f@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com
On Jul 25, 2:19 pm, "j.oke" <java....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 Lug, 08:59, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > is super-cool
>
> On 24 Lug, 08:59, "jhc0...@gmail.com" <jhc0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ... super-cool ...
>
> What's the better language: hebrew or english?
>
> Well, the first one is simple and perfect, and the second one goes all
> for convenience (mixed to european history, which took origin from
> latin, which took origin from greek, which took origin from egyptian,
> which took origin from hebrew (and so the circle is finally closed
> again)).
Ummm, no. I think you're talking about the *alphabet*, not the
language. The English language is part of a large group of languages
called Indo-European, and Hebrew isn't part of this group (nor is
Egyptian). Where this language originated is controversial; one
theory is somewhere northeast of the Black Sea. I don't think you're
quite right about the alphabets, either; the Greek and Hebrew
alphabets are both more or less directly derived from the Phoenician
alphabet, and Egyptian hieroglyphics don't figure into it at all.
> ... super-pedantic ...
-- Adam
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2008-07-14 11:18 computer language used to program Mars Lander jhc0033
2008-07-14 11:21 ` jacob navia
2008-07-14 21:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-14 11:49 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-15 7:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-16 6:02 ` jhc0033
2008-07-16 21:57 ` Brian
2008-07-23 14:43 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-23 22:53 ` Larry Elmore
2008-07-24 6:59 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 7:18 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:14 ` Grant Rettke
2008-07-24 7:39 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 7:51 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 9:40 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 20:39 ` Brian
2008-07-25 6:10 ` jhc0033
2008-07-25 20:29 ` Brian
2008-07-26 3:03 ` jhc0033
2008-07-26 6:09 ` Brian
2008-07-24 8:40 ` pls.mrjm
2008-07-24 9:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-24 11:35 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-24 12:15 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:36 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-25 21:19 ` j.oke
2008-07-25 22:34 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2008-07-25 23:30 ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-26 12:41 ` j.oke
2008-07-26 12:51 ` j.oke
2008-07-17 21:56 ` Paul Hsieh
2008-07-17 22:30 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-17 23:03 ` Default User
2008-07-18 0:03 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 0:02 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 0:08 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 18:02 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-07-18 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-18 18:37 ` Pascal Obry
2008-07-18 19:45 ` Gautier
2008-07-18 20:26 ` jacob navia
2008-07-18 21:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-18 21:14 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 20:45 ` Richard Tobin
2008-07-22 8:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 10:45 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-22 10:50 ` Richard
2008-07-22 11:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 21:11 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-23 8:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-23 13:00 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-26 11:13 ` Antoninus Twink
2008-07-22 12:05 ` Chris Dollin
2008-07-22 13:39 ` Walter Banks
2008-07-14 15:31 ` george.priv
2008-07-14 15:38 ` Keith Thompson
2008-07-14 21:29 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-15 12:04 ` Stephen Leake
2008-07-15 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-15 23:35 ` Phaedrus
2008-07-16 5:21 ` christoph.grein
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