On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:43, Mate Nagy wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:29:36AM +0200, ⚖ Alexander "Surma" Surma
wrote:
English really isn't much more than bastardized Germanic [...]. A
bit like C++ to C,
really.
You made my day.
then i suggest reading this article:
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html
Mark Twain is always a pleasure to read, but I think the general
practice of the English language has become considerably more
"slipshod and systemless" since his time.
--
Complexity is not a function of the number of features. Some features
exist only because complexity was _removed_ from the underlying system.
