From: Jim Rogers <jrogers@omnitech.com>
Subject: Re: Language Challenge 2000
Date: 2000/02/01
Date: 2000-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fg5$u2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877078$km8$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <877078$km8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
David C. Hoos, Sr. <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
> In article <876rjf$h1r$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Just a couple of small "nits" about language.
> The words you were trying to use are:
> criterion -- singular
> criteria -- plural
> They're Greek, and the "ium" ending is from Latin.
> So.. you probably meant to say:
> If this is your only criterion for language choice then you should
> always use assembler.
>
> In many problem domains there are many other criteris, which is the
> reason there are so many different languages.
>
My English language compiler failed to flag a syntax error.
Sorry about the improper mixture of Greek and Latin suffixes
(or is it suffixi?). :-)
--
Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-31 0:00 Language Challenge 2000 bvoh
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jim Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-01 0:00 ` David
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jim Rogers [this message]
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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