Re: Larry Wall on conlanging

On Wed, 19 May 1999, David G. Durand wrote:

> You might think he'd know better, though I'm not surprised he doesn't.
>
>   Nobody designs a natural language by themselves, unless their name
>   happens to be Tolkien.
>     -- Larry Wall (http://kiev.wall.org/~larry/natural.html)
>
I'm glad I'm a Python programmer and not a Perl programmer, then -
after that slur I'd have had to find another language, then.

(As an aside, I think a message I tried to send to the list yesterday
or the day before yesteray about linguistics software for Linux didn't
arrive - I've been installing a new sendmail, and it might have cause
some casualties, including some bounces to the list. But the gist of it
was that my work on Linux Shoebox clone is currently in the phase where
I'm trying to build an interlinear editor widget. When (or if) Kura is
finished, it will be a multi-user linguistics database running under KDE).

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt