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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Coding in English
Summary: Yeah, right.
Message-ID: <669@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 04:15:56 GMT
References: <17.278EA88A@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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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...)

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