too much sugar not good for the health

[torhu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Ary Manzana wrote:
>> English is not succesful because of the language itself, but because of 
>> other reasons (power, articles, books). Just like Java is succesful but 
>> nowhere near because of the language (I guess VM, nice documentation 
>> system, IDEs).
> 
> One reason English is successful is its shamelessness in adopting useful 
> words and phrases from other languages. Sort of like what D does <g>.

This isn't quite true.  English is 'successful' because of the 
dominating position of the US, and earlier the UK.  People very rarely 
choose between languages based on how 'good' they are.  On the other 
hand, two thirds of the English vocabulary is supposed to originate from 
Latin.