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Re: Language comparison

From:Sai Emrys <saizai@...>
Date:Friday, January 7, 2005, 20:23
For everyone who jumped at me for mentioning "primitive": it was in
quotes. It was intended as an ironic use - as in, these are languages
that some people have considered *quote-unquote* "primitive", and
hence the overcompensative backlash in the direction of considering
*all* languages (even ones as yet unmade) equal.

NOT saying that those "primitive" languages (again, notice the
quotes?) are in fact primitive.

Oy. I'm getting the impression that before posting anything here, I
should make sure that any subtleties are very, very clearly specified,
along with tags to indicate where I'm being ironic.

*continues on to content*

- Sai