Re: [NTLK] Small Talk

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 12:12:15 EDT

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On Thursday, July 12, 2001, at 10:07 AM, John M. Powell wrote:

> Garrett,
>
> Small Talk is a language conversationalist (huh?)...
>
> It allows you to carry on a conversation in a variety
> of different languages, with many built in topics.
>
> Anotherwords, lets say you are visiting Mexico and
> don't speak any espanol at all. So, with SmallTalk,
> you ask (in English) where the nearest hotel is.
> It translates to Spanish (or German, or...). The
> person you are chatting with sees the question
> (in Spanish), and replies from a short list of
> answers. A reply might be "It is (so many) miles
> in that (point in the direction) direction." They
> then select how many miles or km's and then Small
> Talk traslates that back into English, while they
> are pointing in the direction of the hotel
> (or hospital, restraunt, etc).
>
> Get the idea?
>
> John
>
>
>> I am curious what is small talk?

It's also the mother of all object-oriented programming languages.

-Laurent.

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