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From: mikeb@ssd.fsi.com (Mike Bates)
Subject: Re: Subject/Object Confusion Syndrome [was: Ada Objects Help]
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:58:14 GMT
Date: 1995-02-09T20:58:14+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MIKEB.95Feb9145815@dev1.ssd.fsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU's message of Mon, 6 Feb 1995 15:37:33 GMT


R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com writes:

>Hmm, just wondering, but has there ever been a computer programming
>language similar in "syntax" to Latin? (using "prefixes"/"suffixes"
>only instead of order to indicate which identifers were refering
>to the procedures/functions and which to data sources or destinations).
>
>Most programming languages seem to use order related syntaxes
>(e.g. prefix, infix, or postfix operator notation)...

Yes!  Replace while loops with the ablative absolute!

grassibus.longibus {
  lawnum.mowite;
}

(Sorry, my Latin dictionary is at home.)


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  parent reply	other threads:[~1995-02-09 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3gtai2$3mq@horus.mch.sni.de>
     [not found] ` <3gudf1$ia1@network.ucsd.edu>
     [not found]   ` <132301@cup.portal.com>
1995-02-06 15:37     ` Subject/Object Confusion Syndrome [was: Ada Objects Help] Fergus Henderson
1995-02-07 14:43       ` John Volan
1995-02-09 20:58     ` Mike Bates [this message]
     [not found]     ` <9503802.3538@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>
1995-02-10 15:19       ` Jules
     [not found] <3f9g1u$j4m@nps.navy.mil>
1995-01-22 18:06 ` ADA Objects Help! Robert Dewar
1995-01-24 22:18   ` Norman H. Cohen
1995-01-25  1:26     ` swdecato
     [not found]       ` <D330pK.M1@nntpa.cb.att.com>
1995-01-28 21:46         ` John DiCamillo
1995-01-30 22:50           ` Subject/Object Confusion Syndrome [was: Ada Objects Help] John Volan
1995-02-01 14:33             ` Norman H. Cohen
     [not found]               ` <D3DpJu.4nK@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>
     [not found]                 ` <D3H7J3.B2x@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
1995-02-06 10:32                   ` Robb Nebbe
     [not found]                 ` <3gu21g$ch@portal.gmu.edu>
1995-02-06 14:01                   ` John Volan
1995-02-01 22:37             ` Maarten Landzaat
     [not found]               ` <3h1ahp$gf5@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
     [not found]                 ` <3h3jmp$1h1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
1995-02-07 14:39                   ` John Volan
1995-02-09  2:25                     ` David Weller
1995-01-29 18:19         ` ADA Objects Help! mat
     [not found]           ` <1995Feb5.180601@hobbit>
1995-02-07 23:04             ` Subject/Object Confusion Syndrome [was: Ada Objects Help] John Volan
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