> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Turoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:31 PM
> To: David Goehrig
> Cc: Larry Wall; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Perl, the new generation
>
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:13:13PM -0700, David Goehrig wrote:
> > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:55:36AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > > If you talk that way, people are going to start believing it.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Some of us are are talking that way because we already
> > beleive it. You can't make the transition from Attic
> > Greek to Koine without changing how people fundamentally
> > view their language. Apocalypse two made me a believer.
>
> There's language and then there's language. Is English the same language
> it was 50 years ago? No, but it's substantially similar, and all of
> the old thoughts are still parsable and comprehendable. The reverse
> isn't strictly true.
Have you ever tried to get a computer to understand English identically as
spoken by a Texan, the Queen of England, and a California surfer? Same
language? Yup.
And?
p
