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Re: Getting Off-Topic (T. Nelson Critique of Embedded Markup

Author:Erik Neu
Posted:11/9/1999; 10:43:25 AM
Topic:T. Nelson Critique of Embedded Markup
Msg #:12893 (In response to 12889)
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>>English is a great container/generator, but an absolutely horrid language for specification of anything. The human hallmark of this horridness is the legal system; the intersection of this horridness with the computing world lies at the juncture where programming language behavior is specified in English, with the inevitable result that no two implementations of the programming language work exactly the same way.>>

Not to debate the point, but it's slightly ironic coming from someone who writes so well ;).

>>The most pernicious example of the latter problem is, of course, Java, which was designed by people who knew better but for whatever reason didn't follow through.>>

It's getting off-topic, but I'd be very interested to see you expound on this.

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