web page "corrections"
Dan Bethe
dtm@hex.net
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 22:59:28 -0600 (CST)
As a linguist and as a professional (hehahahehe) I must suggest
that we must upgrade the use of profanity and slander in our web site. I
went to look at www.tunes.org tonight, hoping to learn something. And of
course I did because Fare is so cool. But he's one heck of a cynic. And
a LOT of people don't have the most fun/useful/productive/happy impression
of TUNES.
Some think we're crackpots. I like that. But here are some
suggestions.
Here is a URL. Then, in "s/search/replace" format from UNIX's
'ed', some upgrades. Current excerpt | New.
http://www.tunes.org/~tunes/doc/HLL/metatranslator/Ctranslator/Ctranslator.html
* remove "lame" and "sucks". certainly no more FUCK. <eyeballs turn to Fare>
* s/lame/flat
C is a truely lame language
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Even though it's been lovingly chastised as the portable assembler (with
buggy specifications), C deserves its own rank of human achievement, in
its balance between the optimal and the practical.
[s/However, i/I]
C is a lame language which (like Pascal) does not know dynamic creation of
objects, and thus forces people to statically define variables that will
be modified instead.
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Like Pascal, C can be viewed as a flat language, which does not know.....
[s/How it sucks!//]