"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <······@cogeco.ca> , emitted these fragments:
>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
>similar syntax (but not too obviously).
Arc is trying that now.
Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .
>Then give it a splashy new name
>after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
>call it something like "Shania".
From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
"Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)
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summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site
Summer grasses,
All that remains
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(Basho trans. Stryk)
From: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
Subject: Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
Date:
Message-ID: <3E1C6CF1.7060506@cogeco.ca>
faust wrote:
> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <······@cogeco.ca> , emitted these fragments:
>>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
>>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
>>similar syntax (but not too obviously).
>
> Arc is trying that now.
> Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .
This doesn't sound like a good start to me, if it is based upon
lisp, (but keeping an open mind), do you have a link for this?
>>Then give it a splashy new name
>>after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
>>call it something like "Shania".
>
> From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
> ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
> "Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)
Well, I don't much pay attention to "popular stuff", but the following
link might explain what first came to my mind ;-)
http://www.shania-twain.com/
I can't say I know anything about "Dusty", and don't really get the
connection to "Echo and the Bunnymen". Perhaps I'm showing my
own cultural ignorance ;-)
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg
From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
Date:
Message-ID: <87u1gjzdod.fsf@bird.agharta.de>
"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <······@cogeco.ca> writes:
> faust wrote:
> > "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <······@cogeco.ca> , emitted these fragments:
> >>Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
> >>a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
> >> similar syntax (but not too obviously).
> > Arc is trying that now.
> > Paul Graham is redesigning lisp .
>
> This doesn't sound like a good start to me, if it is based upon
> lisp, (but keeping an open mind), do you have a link for this?
<http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html>
"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <······@cogeco.ca> , emitted these fragments:
>> From a brief search on google ( I must apologize for my shocking
>> ignorance of celebrities, female or male ) "Echo and the Bunnymen" and
>> "Dusty Vladimir Horowitz " sound like excellent candidates :-)
>
>Well, I don't much pay attention to "popular stuff", but the following
>link might explain what first came to my mind ;-)
>
>http://www.shania-twain.com/
A Twain driver ?
>I can't say I know anything about "Dusty", and don't really get the
>connection to "Echo and the Bunnymen".
I am not sure who they are either.
They just sounded like the most unmarketable names :-)
Ada is such a wimpy name.
Old eighteenth century woman....
--
natsu-gusa ya / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)
faust <·······@optushome.com.au> writes:
> Ada is such a wimpy name.
> Old eighteenth century woman....
I don't follow.
Fraser.
(but just in case, my new language is going to be called Butch, after a
twenty-first century truck driver)
"Fraser Wilson" <··········@blancolioni.org> wrote in message
··················@FWILSON.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me...
> faust <·······@optushome.com.au> writes:
>
> > Ada is such a wimpy name.
> > Old eighteenth century woman....
>
> I don't follow.
>
The first programmer to suffer from major hardware problems :-)
http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/BestOf/WomenInMath7103.html
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Geoff