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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
  2. Path: in1.uu.net!allegra!alice!ark
  3. From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
  4. Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
  5. Message-ID: <DMnEAz.ADn@research.att.com>
  6. Organization: AT&T Research, Murray Hill NJ
  7. References: <4fc0ff$ipd@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU> <4fcra7$fva@solutions.solon.com> <4fm9d8$mgs@azure.dstc.edu.au>
  8. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 05:37:47 GMT
  9.  
  10. In article <4fm9d8$mgs@azure.dstc.edu.au> crawley@dstc.edu.au writes:
  11.  
  12. > English is a good example of what happens when you let the user
  13. > community design the language :-)
  14.  
  15. Yes indeed: you get a language that is large, ungainly, full of
  16. irregularities and historical oddities.  You also get a language
  17. that in much of the world is the de facto standard for commercial
  18. communication.  I remember once standing in the lobby of a
  19. hotel in Copenhagen watching a French visitor trying to talk
  20. to the desk clerk; since one spoke no French and the other
  21. no Danish, they settled on English.
  22. -- 
  23.                 --Andrew Koenig
  24.                   ark@research.att.com
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