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From: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language Tenets
Summary: Memorable sentence on how to mis-design languages.
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.202510.7823@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 19 Jul 89 20:25:10 GMT
Reply-To: quiroz@cs.rochester.edu (Cesar Quiroz)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY 14627
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This could go to rec.humor.funny, but so would many of the
ostensibly serious postings on language design.

In an otherwise quite sane contribution to the debate on multiple
value returns for the Algol family, we find this little gem (taken
sufficiently out of context) that seems to summarize the language
design philosophies of some of the frequent posters to this group:

      `I don't know what the question means, but the answer is yes.'

-- 
                                      Cesar Augusto Quiroz Gonzalez
                                      Department of Computer Science
                                      University of Rochester
                                      Rochester,  NY 14627