languages

Well, throw-in-the-towel is known (at least the acording phrase is in wide use in Germany - just most don't know the orgin), but what is Ebonyx ? And, Jim, for the Grammer ting, don't forget that English is a bastard based on (at least) 5 languages from 3 different language families (No Offense Ment). And for the Computer part: I remember people during the 70's dreaming of real world computer languages, where a computer language may evolve not only into a tool for programming, but also able to be used as (somewhat simple) human language. And now we have C - isn't C a bit like the stuff we are talking about - the lowest common denominator of programming languages at all ? Serious, ain't we are going exactly the same way with programming languages as with real ones ? Just instead of centuries, it took only some dozend years to go from Machine code (grunting sounds) to ADA (Goethes Poems) and only less than 10 years to fall back to C ? Gruss H. -- VCF Europa am 29./30. April 2000 in Muenchen http://www.vintage.org/vcfe http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe