too much sugar not good for the health

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Sat Mar 24 08:31:07 PDT 2007


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>.

Huh? I'm under the impression that that also happens a lot in other 
languages. In fact it likely happens much more often in other languages, 
who borrow a lot of *english* words in these modern times. ;)

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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