Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit

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From: Howard Chu
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 22:42

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In article <970024@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
(Contrary to whidespread opinion, any idiot can make up a language.  It
(takes a lot of skill to design a GOOD language.  There is hardly a shortage
(of languages out there (thousands? tens of thousands?).  There are many
(questionable reasons to invent yet another language, and "so that it uses a
(set of keywords disjoint from those of all the other languages in the
(world" is the most ridiculous reason yet.

See alt.lang.intercal as an existence proof!  }-)
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
		one million data bits stored on the chip...

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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit
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