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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What is the language for ?
Keywords: FORTRAN, languages, stupidity of software which does not let users communicate their needs
Message-ID: <5374@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jul 90 10:53:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul25.174153.16896@ecn.purdue.edu> <11029@chaph.usc.edu> <1990Jul25.210639.20509@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <2408@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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In-reply-to: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)

In article <2408@l.cc.purdue.edu>, cik@l.cc (Herman Rubin) writes:
>A language is a means of communication.  Unlike hardware tools, languages
>can be even interspersed.  To someone who knows more than one language, 
>sentences, phrases, and even words in different languages can be strung
>together in a meaningful fashion.
>
>The hardware is the tool.  The communications scheme should be such as to
>enable the programmer to make use of the tool.

The communications scheme should be such as to enable the programmer
to express and solve his problem.

No?

		Nick.
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