From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ozan Yigit Message-ID: References: <200107110655.HAA01693@localhost.localdomain>, <04fd01c10a0c$c5b7b1c0$c0b7c6d4@SOMA> Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:31:34 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c6d9a5d8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 boyd@fr.inter.net (Boyd Roberts) writes: > ... i was thinking of more > complex stuff. perl or C++ are probably good examples of things > that started out relatively simple (albeit perl was such a mess > from the beginning) and then evolved into these dreadfully complex, > horrible messes. i am holding a colleague's copy of the two-inch-thick "special edition" (party size) stroustrup book, and just noticed that preface to the first edition quotes whorf: "language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." [which is either sad or hilarious, depending on what one thinks of whorf and c++] oz