From: Dale Stanbrough <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:57:46 GMT
Date: 2002-12-18T20:57:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dstanbro-690B40.07563319122002@mec2.bigpond.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcc7ke71i4g.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
In article <wcc7ke71i4g.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> And we call the other five "week days"; two "days of the week" are not
> "week days". Who designed this crazy language? (English, I mean?) ;-)
The same sort of people that realised that people are very good
at decoding meaning based on context, with qualification
required only when it is ambiguous.
...which sounds very much like a computer language we could be
discussing :-).
Dale
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2002-12-18 5:58 calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Grein, Christoph
2002-12-18 15:06 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-18 20:09 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-18 23:57 ` Torsten Poulin
2002-12-19 9:20 ` Anders Wirzenius
2002-12-19 15:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-12-23 2:12 ` AG
2002-12-18 20:57 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
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2002-12-18 7:52 Grein, Christoph
2002-12-18 7:39 Grein, Christoph
2002-12-18 6:05 Grein, Christoph
2002-12-17 5:51 Grein, Christoph
2002-12-17 14:50 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-17 5:47 Grein, Christoph
2002-12-17 14:43 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-17 21:35 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-18 2:09 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-18 6:32 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-18 18:33 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-18 21:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-18 9:10 ` Anders Wirzenius
2002-12-17 20:48 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-18 14:52 ` Ted Dennison
2002-12-18 20:19 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-18 14:23 ` Karel Miklav
2002-12-07 2:47 Richard Riehle
2002-12-09 13:09 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-09 22:45 ` steve_H
2002-12-10 13:50 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-10 17:47 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-10 20:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-10 22:05 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-11 2:50 ` steve_H
2002-12-11 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-11 14:46 ` Wes Groleau
2002-12-12 13:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-12 18:19 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-16 10:11 ` calenday (was " Peter Hermann
2002-12-16 18:38 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-16 19:04 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-16 20:25 ` David C. Hoos
2002-12-16 20:37 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-16 21:41 ` David C. Hoos
2002-12-16 22:11 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-17 15:47 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-17 16:26 ` Peter Hermann
2002-12-17 16:37 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-16 22:32 ` tmoran
2002-12-16 22:21 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-17 8:07 ` Simon Wright
2002-12-19 12:23 ` Frank Piron
2002-12-19 12:33 ` Karel Miklav
2002-12-19 13:24 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-17 14:46 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-17 19:08 ` tmoran
2002-12-17 19:15 ` Bill Findlay
2002-12-17 20:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-17 19:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-17 20:08 ` David C. Hoos
2002-12-17 20:52 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-12-17 21:43 ` Steven Murdoch
2002-12-17 16:39 ` Robert A Duff
[not found] ` <atk8s0$7dm$1@news.uni <wccn0n4oazy.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
2002-12-18 13:20 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-18 15:17 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-18 17:58 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-19 8:48 ` tmoran
2002-12-19 13:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-19 20:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-20 12:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-20 21:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-20 13:15 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-20 12:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-21 15:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-21 14:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-20 18:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-12-20 19:48 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-12-20 21:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-23 2:05 ` AG
2002-12-27 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-21 15:59 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-20 21:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-18 18:57 ` Robert A Duff
[not found] ` <atk8s0$7dm$1@news.uni <wcc4r9b40ka.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
2002-12-18 19:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-12-18 22:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-18 22:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-12-18 22:39 ` Robert A Duff
2002-12-19 2:41 ` Marin David Condic
2002-12-19 11:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
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