From: Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org>
Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:02:14 -0500
Date: 2004-07-20T13:02:14-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <za6dndtexavXw2Dd4p2dnA@gbronline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157lmx3vx3yea$.1thsads2cv8rx.dlg@40tude.net>
> Right, but the author emphasizes that possibility is nothing, intent and
> purpose is everything:
>
> "... [snip] Consequently, the fact that source code reads like the English
> language gives the wrong impression as to its true nature."
Oh, THAT'S why Ada, Cobol, and SQL are more evil than C and C++ :-)
--
Wes Groleau
Armchair Activism: http://www.breakthechain.org/armchair.html
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2004-07-19 18:46 Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Marc A. Criley
2004-07-19 18:56 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-19 19:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-19 23:24 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 0:27 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 7:40 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-20 15:24 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 16:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 18:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-20 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-08-09 16:14 ` Richard Riehle
2004-07-19 20:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-19 23:27 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 9:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-20 0:31 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 1:45 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-07-20 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 14:28 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-20 15:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 18:02 ` Wes Groleau [this message]
2004-07-21 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-21 20:22 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-23 8:00 ` Rolf Ebert
2004-07-23 21:04 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 20:17 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 22:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-23 20:59 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 1:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-21 1:17 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-21 3:44 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 4:09 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 9:38 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-07-22 14:11 ` Marc A. Criley
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