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From: mikeb@coho.UUCP (Mike Bolotski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ is too complex!!!
Summary: Russian translation
Message-ID: <276@coho.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 17:52:54 GMT
References: <4194@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: UBC Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Vancouver, Canada
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In article <4194@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>, jans@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
> 
> (How do you say, "I want the window here, and I want it to display the P/E 
> ratio of the top 50 NASDAQ stocks in a scatter-plot" in Russian?)
> 


Ya khochu okno tut, yi I khochu pokazat <P/E ratio> visshikh pyatdesat  NASDAQ
<stocks> v <scatter-plot>.

But seriously, folks, one nice thing about Russian is that the order of the
words in a simple sentence can be permuted and the sentence will still remain
grammatically correct - the meaning of the sentence changes subtly.  You 
wouldn't want this sort of behaviour in a programming language. (Or would you?).

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