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Article #1481Re: The Universal Language
From: David Gudeman
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 19:55
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 1990 19:55
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In article <7945@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes: > >I always thought that The Universal Language was PL/1. >...[more satire]... Just because previous attempts to solve a problem were failures, that does not mean the problem is insoluble. And I explicitely stated several times that we don't currently know how to go about creating a universal language. >:-) on the above. There could no more be a Universal Language than a Universal >Religion or a Universal Screwdriver. As long as people and projects differ >there will never be a Universal Language. Sorry, Tom, but just because we can't see today how to do something doesn't mean that it is forever impossible. Actually, I think a universal screwdriver _is_ possible. I've even toyed with the idea. -- David Gudeman Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona gudeman@cs.arizona.edu Tucson, AZ 85721 noao!arizona!gudeman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!noao!arizona!gudeman From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: The Universal Language Message-ID: <24129@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 19:55:08 GMT Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 22