On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 2) Explain why, if people *want* regularity, the evolution of natural
> languages has tended *away* from regularity in almost all circumstances.
I think its at this point that we should turn to the example of how
the steamroller of Esperanto is sweeping the linguistic world!!! *
And not to smoke next to a barrel of aviation fuel... but the bland
regularity of languages like Java and Pascal leaves much to be desired
when it comes to usefully reducing the number of statements it takes
to do a task. Sure, they're easy to teach initially... but what do
you do for the next 20 years of your programming career?
* that's a joke, son
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