From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-18 12:57:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:57:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1040245066 144.132.47.50 (Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:57:46 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:57:46 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32052 Date: 2002-12-18T20:57:46+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff 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