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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The Universal Language
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Date: 9 Aug 90 19:37:26 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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I always thought that The Universal Language was PL/1. After all it did
combine the needs of the commercial programmer (Cobol features) with the
needs of the scientific programmer (algebraic expressions, matrices), thus
meeting everyones needs.

Or maybe the Universal Language is Ada, since it also is an Osterizer language.

I got it now. It must be C, or rather C++, because you can write *everything* 
in these, and they are *popular*.

:-) on the above. There could no more be a Universal Language than a Universal
Religion or a Universal Screwdriver. As long as people and projects differ
there will never be a Universal Language.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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