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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:

: Seriously the 
: Austrian culture is very relaxed compared to northern Germany.

Interesting that you see it this way. There are many
who say it is the other way.

:   (In fact, I think that southern German is still 
: more religious and fun loving than Austria, but compared to northern 
: Germany, the difference is relatively minor.)

Just a different sort of humor (and religious history).


: All this is sort of very off topic for this newsgroup,

as is probably the assumption that "The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism" (articulately present in Bill Gates and
co-workers) might have to do with inventing computer languages
and tools, directly or indirectly :-)


: Wirth 
: who designed Pascal and Algol-W among other languages, was Dutch.

(Uhm, he seems to be from Winterthur in Switzerland. Though Dijkstra was
from the Netherlands.)