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Article #4911Re: Pronunciation of 'anything'
From: Jay Maynard
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1987 22:14
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1987 22:14
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In article <3084@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) writes: > //SYSIN DD DATA > Added short note the Mesa Reference manual has an pronunciation guide in > its Appendix. Most amusing. Perhaps all future language designs should > do such. ;-) > > I side with Doug Gwyn. Any company who makes such a fuss must be a sorry > place to work. Was the poster from IBM? > /* Hm...Eugene, you have been hanging around the guys implementing NASANET too long :-)...(I'm involved, peripherally, in that effort...) I seem to recall that Forth was actually intended to be a spoken language as well, with a (more-or-less) standard pronumciation set. Since it led to oddities like '@' being pronounced 'fetch', etcetera, I suspect it's not used much except by the folks at Forth, Inc... -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC (@WB5BBW)...>splut!< | uucp: uunet!nuchat!splut!jay Never ascribe to malice that which can | or: academ!uhnix1!--^ adequately be explained by stupidity. | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD CI$: 71036,1603 The opinions herein are shared by neither of my cats, much less anyone else.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'anything' Message-ID: <181@splut.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 18:14:09 EDT Article-I.D.: splut.181 Posted: Sat Oct 17 18:14:09 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Oct-87 03:12:20 EDT References: <1781@killer.UUCP> <558@hubcap.UUCP> <3084@ames.arpa> Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 23 Summary: Mesa's not the only one...