Re: Piat (was: Another question about language naming)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 21, 2002, 21:21 |
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At 3:26 pm -0500 20/3/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Raymond Brown scripsit:
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>> Yes, what has happened to Piat? Has it progressed further than BrSc?
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>Alas, no. You know, it occurs to me that "BrSc" could be read not only
>as BriefScript but also as BrownScript. (The furthest thing from your mind,
>I feel sure!)
So it could :)
Actually, nothing was in _my_ mind when 'BrSc' was adopted as a convenient
'temporary name' for the language, because it wasn't my coinage. But I
don't recall now who it was that first started using the term 'BrSc'; I
have a feeling it was Philip Jonsson. Whether he (or whover it was) saw
the double meaning, I don't know.
Ray.
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A mind which thinks at its own expense
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