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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2003 15:42:34 PDT7
From:	"Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@well.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: A slight pause...Deja Vu All Over Again.

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> Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > It's good to have your presence here
>
> You realize not everyone shares your view on this . . . :))
>
> > or you believe as I do in the possibility that a
> > mono-linguistic programming/specification will evolve.
>
> I do believe that there is a programming f(x) such that f(x)={infinity}.
>
> We can use English to express all of our logic. No need to sometimes
> incorporate Farsi or Chinese. Thus it seems likely that your quest is a
> valid one.
>
I used to teach at a school that had TWO computing centers. The
administrative computing center was true blue all the way. The academic
computing center was mainly DEC and CDC at the time. Most teaching took
place on the CDC and the VAX, although a few departments used the IBM's
based on past history with the "administrative" computing center.
Since I was on the computer committee at the time, I was called in to
a meeting about making SAS available to the engineering students. The
system adminstrator from the academic computing center was supposed to
present the How-To so the engineering professors could teach the students
how to run a SAS job from the VAX. (From, not On.)
Anyway, the VAX adminstrator started his presentation by praising DECnet
and snarling at SNA----Untill the Assistant Director of the Academic
Computing center cut him off with: "Let's not get started by balming
the French for not speaking German."
Well, that may have been slightly off topic. We can now return to
our discussion trying to define the Esperanto of computer programming
languages.
As for Peter's suggestion of English, I would vote for us to consider
the following:
http://extreme-hawaii.com/pidgin/vocab/ or
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/research/jpcl/
Savvy, brah?

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