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In English, Every Word Can Be Verbed. Would That It Were So In Our Programming Languages.
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In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our
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In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Quote #216 Then there's the apocryphal statement attributed to Alexander Haig
"There isn't a word in the English language that can't be verbed." Why *him*, of all people?...
The longest word in the English language is: "And now a word from our honored guest.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire....
candygrammar n. A programming-language grammar that is mostly syntactic suga
he term is also a play on `candygram'. COBOL, Apple's Hypertalk language, and a lot of the so-called `4GL' database languages share this property....
I would go so far as to suggest that, were it not for our ego and concern to be different, the African apes would be included in our family, the Hominidae.
-- Richard Leakey...
Ada is the 400-pound gorilla of programming languages.