On 12/06/2019 01:16 AM, poindexter FORTRAN -> Paul Quinn wrote:
 -=>> Paul Quinn wrote to Netsurge <=-

 PQ>> And some C+- (Pronounced "C More or Less").

 pF> You'd take the integer variable C, evaluate it, add 1 and subtract 1,
 pF> giving
 pF> you C. You forgot the trailing semicolon...

 pF> I just had a flashback to the C class I took last century.

Hi! [name],

I get those myself, and (I) suffer migraine-like headaches when people describe 
difficulties they've encountered getting code to compile, purely out of 
sympathy with their strife.  It's similar to the effects from long-term LSD 
use.  Anyhow...

                Unlike C++, C+- is a subject-oriented language.

                Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds
                hidden members, known as prejudices or undeclared
                preferences, which are impervious to outside messages,
                as well as public members known as boasts or claims.
                The following C operators are overridden as shown:

                   >     better than
                   <     worse than
                   >>    way better than
                   <<    forget it
                   !     not on your life
                   ==    comparable, other things being equal

                C+- is a strongly typed language based on stereotyping
                and self-righteous logic.  The Boolean variables TRUE
                and FALSE (known as constants in less realistic
                languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS,
                which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy
                categories. All Booleans can be declared with the
                modifiers strong and weak.  Weak implication is said to
                "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of
                the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of
                ADA.  Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-
                compatible with all booleans.  What-if and why-not
                interactions are aided by the special conditional
                evenifnot X then Y.

                C+- supports information hiding and, among friend
                classes only, rumor sharing.  Borrowing from the Eiffel
                lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging
                contracts.  Note that friendships are intransitive,
                volatile, and non-Abelian.

                Operator precedence rules can be suspended with the
                directive #pragma dwim, known as the "Do what I mean"
                pragma.

                ANSIfication will be firmly resisted. C+-'s
                slogan is "Be Your Own Standard."


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               Steve Sashihara
               President, Princeton Consultants Inc.
                          2 Research Way, Princeton NJ

:)

Cheers,
Paul.

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