George Pierce sez:
> Very well said. The english language being a lte off shoot of Gailic
> spoken by us Irish since before mileniums were invented has sufficient
> ways to express all normal human thoughts.
Who on Earth told you that?
NewtonScript is based on Unger's language Self, which in turn is
a classless, template-based derivative of Smalltalk. This is only one reason
why the Newton is the most advanced piece of computer science ever to hit
the consumer marketplace. By far.
English, on the other hand, is a Germanic language, which is a
division of the Indo-European group of language families. Dutch, Frisian
and Manx are all Germanic languages.
Gaelic, including Scots, Irish, and Breton, are members of the Celtic
language group, also part of the Indo-European family, but distinctly NOT
Germanic, and not a very close relative of English at all, at all. Good
heavens, man, if you know any Gaelic at all, you must know its word order
is verb-first. The only other language I've seen with that particular brand
of weirdness is ancient Egyptian.
Ankh wja snb to ya, guy. (Life, properity, health - the old
Egyptian salutation.)
Mike O'Brien
Oh, that stuff you guys are getting all huffy about? Pure Anglo-Saxon.
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