Am 09.12.01, Nik Taylor yscrifef:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > D'oh. I with my ignorance of languages thouht I was totally original. :-)
> >
> > Not a problem! It's one conceit we all lose pretty quickly
> > around here.
>
> I dunno. It depends on what you mean by "original".
Totally new feature never used in any other language in history.
(I don't count alien languages that use apparatus that humans
don't have, etc. as that's too easy.)
> I'd say that if
> you came up with an idea on your own, without any outside influence,
> that counts as original. Even if it happens that someone else came up
> with the same idea.
Hey, I'm not saying it's not clever! It's just not "original".
Padraic.
--
Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.