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Preben Randhol wrote:

> >> http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?programming+language
> >
> >=> "A formal language in which computer programs are written."
> >
> > Well, good for you. As far as I understand from some your previous postings,
> > your profession is chemistry, and not programming. Would you be satisfied by
> > a definition of molecule, from which you are unable to tell reasonably,
> > whether a crystal is simply a single huge molecule or not?
>
> What on earth are you talking about?

For confusing you even more -:) , let's consider the difference between
Engrus and Ruglish. With Engrus, the English language plays significant role
in thinking, while with Ruglish all thinking goes with Russian only, and
translation occurs immediately before coughing words out.

>-- 
>"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
> language."

You may see that as irony, but the most known Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah
turned exactly to that - the flagship product of his company aimed to saving
keystrokes: http://www.textware.com .



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia