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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
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In comp.lang.ada Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comacast.net> wrote:
: "Larry Hazel" <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote...
:> Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
:>
:> >
:> >
:> > When I need a language that's easy to use and readable, I turn
:> > directly to C.
:> >
:>
:> C?  Easy to read?  You have got to be kidding.
: 
: I, on the other hand have no
: idea how to read Chinese.  But I don't exclaim "you've got
: to be kidding" when somebody says that Chinese is possible
: to read.

Possible...  "readable", then "easy to read", then "possible
to read". Some of Chinese ideographic content is easy to remember if
you learn to distinguish the pictures.  Doesn't mean that Chinese
writing is easy to understand, e.g. because of context dependence.
Now what does "read" mean?


Georg