john gilmore wrote, elaborating on syntax and expressions:
Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as
dialects of Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the
like--are always misconceived.
Agree. ;-))
and its has no validity in this syntax and should have been
On Dec 6, 2010, at 03:48, D E Engelbrecht wrote:
Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as dialects of
Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the like--are always
misconceived.
'misconceived' - Agreed.
For the purists:
Was ist nicht erlaubt is verboten (What
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2010, at 03:48, D E Engelbrecht wrote:
Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as dialects of
Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the like--are always
misconceived.
For a fuller exposition of verboten und/oder erlaubt, a recent Russian textbook
of mine had this Soviet-era joke (with my translation):
In England, what is allowed is allowed, but what is forbidden is forbidden.
In Germany, everything is forbidden except that which is allowed.
In America,
Bill,
that makes sense
From a German
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Subject: Re: SPM bugs
Bill,
that makes sense
From a German
Fred van der Windt wrote:
begin snippet
Ah.
So if I code a macro invocation with parameters that do not meet the documented
specification of that macro, but the macro ignores the incorrect parameters and
uses the remaining parameters to generate some code anyway without any mention
of
