Whither Tango?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
news:hlostp$v2r$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12:15:30AM +1030, Justin Johansson wrote:
>>> Listen guys.  "retro" in English, and given it's post-classical Latin
>>> roots does not mean the same as "reverse".
>>
>> The only difference I've ever heard is reverse is a verb, and retro
>> is an adjective.
>>
>> retro rocket = rockets that fire in reverse
>> retrograde = an orbit that goes in reverse
>>
>>
>> If it had to change, the next best thing would probably be inReverse();
>>
>> Do people find that agreeable?
>>
>>
>
> Notwithstanding the untruth or otherwise of the following statement,
> how sounds the semantics?
>
> "Using D as a programming language is retrograde to using C++."
>
> Does the writer of that statement actually mean reverse?
>

I've read enough babelfish and google translations that if I saw a statement 
like that, I would assume it was a non-native english speaker (of 
questionable programming langauge preferences) calling D a step backwards 
from C++.