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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: The Universal Language
Message-ID: <24129@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 90 19:55:08 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article  <7945@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
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>I always thought that The Universal Language was PL/1.
>...[more satire]...

Just because previous attempts to solve a problem were failures, that
does not mean the problem is insoluble.  And I explicitely stated
several times that we don't currently know how to go about creating a
universal language.

>:-) 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.

Sorry, Tom, but just because we can't see today how to do something
doesn't mean that it is forever impossible.  Actually, I think a
universal screwdriver _is_ possible.  I've even toyed with the idea.
-- 
					David Gudeman
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona        gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
Tucson, AZ 85721                 noao!arizona!gudeman