Translate chinese to english gives
曲高和寡
to be
Niche

2009/5/31 bill lam <[email protected]>

> On Sun, 31 May 2009, Matthew Brand wrote:
> > On a serious note, I get the impression that the two main reasons
> > people choose APL is legacy and the psychological disorder related to
> > our expectations of increased quality as a function of price.
>
> Is this provocative statement a bait waiting for Morten to bite ;-)
>
> Seriously, I dislike the way dyalog allied with m$ and dotnet.
> However I agree that dyalog can be more commercially successful than
> J. There is a chinese idiom "曲高和寡" which I googled it to mean
> "caviar to the general"
>
> --
> regards,
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> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3
> 唐詩214 李商隱  籌筆驛
>    猿鳥猶疑畏簡書  風雲常為護儲胥  徒令上將揮神筆  終見降王走傳車
>    管樂有才原不忝  關張無命欲何如  他年錦里經祠廟  梁父吟成恨有餘
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