begin  quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 04:00:22PM -0500:
> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:34:50 -0700
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: The perfect language
> > 
> > Today, I'm announcing the perfect programming language: Twobase. It 
> > exceeds the power of C++, LISP, or assembler, and the syntactic 
> > simplicity of Smalltalk or Scheme. It runs on all digital computers, and 
> > is capable of any abstraction, but it's real power comes from the 
> > simplicity of its syntax, whose light cognitive load is instantly 
> > comprehensible not only by almost any human, but by computers as well, 
> > allowing for easy parsing and dynamic code generation.
> > 
> > The entire language is made up of two glyphs: 0 and 1.
>
> Won't run on my new trinary machine.  Fail.

A  prime  example of the difficulties in designing new languages.

-Stu

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