From: Emre Sevinc
Subject: Why C# will fail (and why Lisp didn't), a weird approach
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Hidden wisdom :-P (Or should I say latent variable analysis?) ;-)
http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-microsoft-can-blow-off-with-c.html
I remember that Dali had a similar idea showing a parallel
between the beard sizes of Marx, Engelse, Lenin, Stalin ... to Krushchev
and the historical situations ;-)
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From: Jeff
Subject: Re: Why C# will fail (and why Lisp didn't), a weird approach
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Emre Sevinc wrote:
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> http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-microsoft-can-blow-off-with-c.html
>
First picture is false. Charles Moore invented Forth, not Fortran.
Jeff M.
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From: John Thingstad
Subject: Re: Why C# will fail (and why Lisp didn't), a weird approach
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:47:33 GMT, Jeff <·······@gmail.com> wrote:
> Emre Sevinc wrote:
>
>
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>> http://khason.biz/blog/2004/12/why-microsoft-can-blow-off-with-c.html
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>
> First picture is false. Charles Moore invented Forth, not Fortran.
>
> Jeff M.
>
John Backus invented FORTRAN by the way...
(funny name: John comes from Johannes meaning 'the virtous'
Bacchus is the Roman wine god, a equivalent of Dionysis.)
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John Thingstad wrote:
> John Backus invented FORTRAN by the way...
> (funny name: John comes from Johannes meaning 'the virtous'
> Bacchus is the Roman wine god, a equivalent of Dionysis.)
"Johannes" doesn't mean "the virtuous", does it? According
to the not-very-reliable name list in the back of one of my
dictionaries, it may come from "**** is gracious", where
**** is the Hebrew name of God which I have omitted in case
any Orthodox Jewish readers would be troubled or inconvenienced
by it.
A couple of (probably even more unreliable) websites suggest
that Backus is a variant of something like Backhouse or Bakehouse,
an English name. I suppose it might be derived from Bacchus,
but something more Germanic seems likely...
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From: John Thingstad
Subject: Re: Why C# will fail (and why Lisp didn't), a weird approach
Date:
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:48:00 GMT, Gareth McCaughan
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> John Thingstad wrote:
>
>> John Backus invented FORTRAN by the way...
>> (funny name: John comes from Johannes meaning 'the virtous'
>> Bacchus is the Roman wine god, a equivalent of Dionysis.)
>
> "Johannes" doesn't mean "the virtuous", does it? According
> to the not-very-reliable name list in the back of one of my
> dictionaries, it may come from "**** is gracious", where
> **** is the Hebrew name of God which I have omitted in case
> any Orthodox Jewish readers would be troubled or inconvenienced
> by it.
>
> A couple of (probably even more unreliable) websites suggest
> that Backus is a variant of something like Backhouse or Bakehouse,
> an English name. I suppose it might be derived from Bacchus,
> but something more Germanic seems likely...
>
lol. Ok I admit it's a bit of a strech.
Thou shall not use my name in vain.. (Jehova)
Just the first thing that fell into my mind.
(I did get the spelling right though. Indicating that there is a
difference.)
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:21:10 +0200, Emre Sevinc <·····@bilgi.edu.tr>
wrote:
>I remember that Dali had a similar idea showing a parallel
>between the beard sizes of Marx, Engelse, Lenin, Stalin ... to Krushchev
>and the historical situations ;-)
Do you have a link to the actual quote?