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- From: tuishimi@aol.com (Tuishimi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 13:24:08 -0500
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- References: <DMnEAz.ADn@research.att.com>
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-
- >Yes indeed: you get a language that is large, ungainly, full of
- >irregularities and historical oddities. You also get a language
- >that in much of the world is the de facto standard for commercial
- >communication. I remember once standing in the lobby of a
- >hotel in Copenhagen watching a French visitor trying to talk
- >to the desk clerk; since one spoke no French and the other
- >no Danish, they settled on English.
- >--
- > --Andrew Koenig
- > ark@research.att.com
-
- 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.
-