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From: ech@spuxll.UUCP (Ned Horvath)
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Subject: Re: Why do languages become popular?
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 18:29:26 EST
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<---take my line, please--->

Ted Goldstein writes:

> Actually, theres a thought.  Anyone know of an experimental extensible
> language with complex syntax?

Let me beat the partisans to the punch: sure, Ada.  Ada has *EVERYTHING*,
and *EVERYTHING* is complex.

Flames to /dev/null, are you so insecure that you have to see the tongue-
in-cheek to recognize a cheap shot?

=Ned=