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<CAHtJz9J_1gzPgLDAOi=p9+agnuk=gRDx-iBdeG_+v6F_Ew=8...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 08/03/2013
at 05:21 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> said:
>Generally, the more PL/I like a language is, the better I like it.
>The original if flawed assertion that COBOL was "English like"
Made sense only to someone who didn't know COBOL or who didn't know
English. In English "77" and "88" mean 77 and 88.
>English is a basket case of a language.
Admittedly the phonetic spelling isn't, and there are a lot of near
synonyms, but "basket" case seems to be overstatin the case? How is
English worse than, e.g., Frisian, German, Romance languages, Semitic
languages, Slavic languages?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
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