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- From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 19 Feb 1996 14:34:18 GMT
- Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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- References: <DMnEAz.ADn@research.att.com> <4g56g9$1sk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
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- In article <4g56g9$1sk@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
- writes:
-
- |> I think someone out there should volunteer to write an English compiler.
- |> One that
- |> supports all dialects on all platforms! :)
- |>
- |> Excerpt of code from a "valley person":
- |>
- |> If, like -- omigod!, the big red cadillac costs more than the bitchin'
- |> BMW, like, buy the BMW!!!
- |>
- |> ENG-E-FATSYNERR, Fatal syntax error, "like -- omigod!"
- |> ENG-F-VALNOTSUP, Valley dialect not supported in this version.
-
- I heard a proposal several years ago for a programming language based on
- Valley English. The programming language was named VALGOL. The Boolean
- constants were named Fer_Sure and As_If.
-
- --
- Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
-