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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi) Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style Date: 1996/06/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162217482 sender: news@biosys.apldbio.COM references: <835638777.25050.0@assen.demon.co.uk> to: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) organization: Applied BioSystems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 24 Jun 1996 19:02:31 GMT john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) writes: > >But then again, why do some people think "gotten" is part of the >English language:-) My _Webster's Ninth New Collegiate_ dictionary lists both "got" and "gotten" as acceptable past participles of "get." Of course, this dictionary is an American product, so it's possible that the language of this dictionary is really some mutant language ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bearing a vague resemblance to English . . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Like fer sure ! The American English Langauge Ain't No Mutant of no langauge, dude ! Nasser ps. Mutation is really nothing but a random act of nature, if the product of mutation is weak, the mutant subject will not survive nature, and the mutation will not by repreated by generational reproduction, and the random act will be as if not existed, else it will progress and spread among generations, and will become after millions of years the real thing. -- Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. GeneAssist - A client/server application for Nucleic acid and protein sequence search and analysis. PE-Applied BioSystem division. email: nasser@apldbio.com MSEE(control), MSCS, MSCE, FM(Fide Chess Master 1.e4 !!) I'am hooked on programming and can't get out ....