At 10:30 AM -0500 3/18/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Price wrote:
 linguistic scholars have noticed that
 throughout human history, there has
 always been a trend of languages
 diverging, rather than converging

awk, sed, and a mish-mash of useful functionality converging into Perl would be a counter-example.

I don't know that it's safe to make that counter-example. While computer and human languages share many traits, they aren't the same thing by any means.
--
Dan


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