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Article #1199Re: How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel functional language to the level of FORTH ?
From: Frank GOENNINGER
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:17
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:17
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D Herring <dherring@at.tentpost.dot.com> writes: > On 01/01/2011 06:56 PM, Pascal Costanza wrote: >> On 01/01/2011 08:04, girosenth wrote: >>> How to improve the readability of (any) LISP or any highlevel >>> functional language to the level of FORTH ? >> >> I'm rather wondering how we can improve the readability of (any) >> English to the level of German. > > The classic response: > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~choh/german.htm > > I haven't a clue where this originated. Must be the proposal of Mr Oettinger, the German politican now being EU Commisioner for Energy. Hearing him speaking English very closely assemble the "Modern English" as outlined on that page ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOO7Ut1P4Y No, I'm not proud of that ... Frank
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