LoL! That reminds me, after Edsger W. Dijkstra published his famous paper, "Go to considered harmful", of a parody article touting the benefits of a "come from" statement. :-)
Leslie Turriff ITSD 751-3480 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 15:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SLightly O/T Perl The DWIM language - Do What I Meant! BTW, no need for messages! <snip> What we need is a language that dynamically adapts to the programmer. A compiler for this language could recognize not only valid syntax in the language, but also detect unskilled programmers and automatically limit their access to some (or all ;-) features. Using advanced heuristics, in some cases the compiler would just write messages like: "Sorry, you are an idiot. Compilation aborted." </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
