CA> I never really liked C++ and know very little about it
CA> other than it's an add-on to C as macros are to ASM. 

California State University now offers C as an optional elective course.  
However, the University will not offer any credit for the course if the 
student has previously taken a course in ANY other programming language.  
The only languages necessary to graduate in Computer Science are C++, 
ALC and Java.  However, Data Structures and Compiler Design are both 
required and both are taught in C.  Hmmm... it seems to me that there's 
something missing here.

NH> Do you have any idea of what is occurring with the link
NH> between Europe and North America? 

CA> No, I'v not heard anything although I did notice that many of
CA> the Russians who were posting suddenly disappeared.  I was
CA> just begining to learn how it is that Americans and Russians
CA> find themselves 'at odds' when exchanging messages and they
CA> vanished.  It seems that they do not share our fondness for
CA> irony in our 'humor' and we do not always grasp their fondness
CA> for what we call slapstick.  Our humor has a twist that they
CA> do not perceive and they enjoy people trying to not fall on
CA> an ice covered driveway.  Something like that anyhow.

It seems to me that the natural correlation between culture and language 
may have more to do with this.  It seems to me that when any language is 
translated for another culture, the original meaning is (almost) always 
lost and any (attempted) translation usually changes the original 
meaning.

CA> I don't remember exactly which country people are in since many
CA> do not identify country of origin and I don't memorize the fido
CA> node numbers. 

Gosh, one of my favorite leisure activities is memorizing the telephone 
book.

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