On Mar 29, 12:34 am, "jason.cipri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<jason.cipri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This, viewed as an isolated case, is merely a
> shortcoming of language X. It is not necessarily related to some
> global standard. It is just like a spoken language -- if people are
> constantly forming long phrases to describe a common idea, it's
> probably about time to come up with a new word for that commonly
> expressed idea. In the programming world, people frequently attempt to
> solve this problem by coming up with their own libraries that simplify
> repetitive code.
Heh, in fact, these could be compared to various dialects of a certain
spoken language, in which case it seems like you have a monster like
English, but what you really want is French. :-)
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