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Re: Perfect language features: how many languages?

#5126
From: Daniel J. Salomon
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1988 02:31
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In article <24112@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>In article <5015@watdragon.waterloo.edu> djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon) writes:
>>
>>An analogy with natural languages would be a better one...
>
>	Permit me to intrude with a point here.  Computer languages
>are not languages in the sense that natural languages are languages.

But you have to admit that computer languages are more like
natural languages than they are like vaccines.  That is all I said.
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From: djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Perfect language features: how many languages?
Message-ID: <5028@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 88 02:31:45 GMT
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