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From: ftilley@indirect.com (Felix E. Tilley Jr.)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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In article <smryanDA1t7t.3wr@netcom.com>
   smryan@netcom.com "@#$%!?!" writes:
> Organization: The Programmer formerly known as S M Ryan
> There is no common language because european don't want one...
> Language ability is biological. Language usage is cultural.
> ...
> Humans don't need extremely regular languages and
> wouldn't know what to do with one if it existed.

Shame on you, and you a Programmer too :-)

Maybe we could set up an international committee to design a
programming language aimed at communicating ideas. It would meet
frequently, issue proposals and update the language every ten
years after exhaustive consultation.  Communications in the
language would be passed through a computer (compiled) to check
for inconsistencies and illogicalities. We could build separately
compiled modules representing objects in the real world and link
them together in new combinations that probably make sense.

We could call it, um, COmmon Bureaucratic Object Language :-)

--
Buddies,

Doesn't the French Academy already do just this?


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