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From: bch@uncecs.edu (Byron C. Howes)
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Subject: Re: Language and Computers
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Date: 31 Oct 88 17:16:57 GMT
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Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I can't agree that computer
languages are more logical in any sense than any other sort of language.
It's like saying that some languages are more rational (in expression)
than another.  The adjective just doesn't seem to apply.

This doesn't blunt the original argument however.  What are
traditionally thought of as computer languages are composed primarily,
if not entirely, of imperative sentences possibly modifed by conditional
clauses.  If we can say that men are socialized to lead and women to
follow then we can say that the territory of computer language
imperatives may be alien to women.

--Byron

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Byron C. Howes			    Computer Systems Manager
bch@uncecs.edu			UNC Educational Computing Service