On 12-Sep-08 19:15, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I can write you programs in BASIC, Pascal, SDL, Tcl, Java, 
>>> JavaScript, PostScript, or even assembly if I have to. (Depends which 
>>> processor. Obviously.) But C and a few other highly complex and messy 
>>> languages are more than even I can cope with.
> 
>> I find the 'even I' amusing.
> 
> Do you know how many people can code directly in PostScript? (Small 
> hint: not many.)
been there, done that
> 
> Do you know how many people can code in assembly? (Hint: even fewer.)
been there, done that (for at least 3-5 processors and the one I built 
myself ;) )
I think less people coded postscript than assembly, at least when I was 
young (it was part of our university course)

> 
>>> My God... It's... It's like... [I'm searching for the HGTTG quote]... 
>>> It's like a psuedo-random assortment of letters!
>>
>> Is that the quote?
> 
> Er, no.

Ok, what were you looking for, what scene. I don't know which you mean 
and I though I knew his material rather well.

> 
>>> With experimentation, it seems that the translation FROM English to 
>>> German significantly breaks sentences, 
>>
>> how would you know?
> 
> Some of the Germans in this forum said so.

Ah, ok. So you trust non-native speakers to judge how broken english is. 
Makes sense.

> 
>>> while the translation the other way is moderately reliable.
>>
>> I can not imagine that it will translate the archetypal German 
>> sentences with the verb that closes the sentence 5 lines below the 
>> subject in a readable way.
> 
> Search me.
> 
... Milton Keynes , am I close?

Post a reply to this message