dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) (01/15/91)
In article <17.278EA88A@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes: > [lots of stuff I have no knowledge of] >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >= plummerd@uregina.ca or plumme@hercules.uregina.ca (BITNET) = >=---------------------------------------------------------------------= >= Amiga__ | Make it possible for programmer's to = >= __ /// IBMUBMWEALLBM4IBM | write code in English and you'll soon = >= \\\/// | discover that programmers cannot = >= \XX/ | write in English. = >----------------------------------------------------------------------- That programmers cannot write in English is already a well known fact. See virtually any Unix documentation if you disagree. On a related note, I realized that the U of A CS graduate program has no foreign language requirement is that computer science is its own foreign language. (to be taken with two ;-) (at least...) >David Plummer - via FidoNet node 1:140/22 >UUCP: ...!herald!weyr!70!David.Plummer >Domain: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG >Standard Disclaimers Apply... Dave Schaumann | We've all got a mission in life, though we get into ruts; dave@cs.arizona.edu | some are the cogs on the wheels, others just plain nuts. Science is some peoples calling, others pilot a ship... My mission in life stated simply is a mustache on every lip! -Daffy Duck.
peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (01/16/91)
In article <669@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > >That programmers cannot write in English is already a well known fact. See >virtually any Unix documentation if you disagree. That is very hard news for me. Every day I read carefully all this stuff on the net and try hard to adapt to the Speak here, because I thought this would be true English. And now you are going to tell me that I perhaps learn something not perfect??? -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk