eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) (10/12/87)
//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?
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From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
eugene@ames-aurora.ARPA
"You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?"
"Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."
{hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugenevarol@cwi.nl (Varol Akman) (10/15/87)
But NASA pays you so that you can reply to such 'silly' queries, huh?
jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) (10/18/87)
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.