Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:35:22 -0500, 
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 1066653321.30017.209.camel@haggis>:

> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, 
> > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message 
> > <[🔎] 1066582986.30013.25.camel@haggis>:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, 
> > > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message 
> > > > <[🔎] 1066560676.28502.15.camel@haggis>:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -0500, 
> > > > > > John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote in message 
> > > > > > <[🔎] 873cdq42m8.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Pigeon writes:
> [snip]
> > > > Red China Communism came from where?  ;-)
> > > 
> > > So the idea came from Germany, and then got twisted from Marx's
> > > idea of revolt by workers in the Industrial Revolution to justifi-
> > > cation of mass starvation (in the 1950s) of peasants and then the
> > > Cultural Revolution, while Mao was living like an Emperor.
> > 
> > ..bravo, not bad.  Not at all bad.   ;-)
> > 
> > > Face it: where ever you go, there are people who are ambitious and
> > > hard working enough to move "up the ladder", whether that be in a
> > > semi-capitalistic or "communal" system, and a democracy/republic
> > > or an authoritarian state.  Every one else just wants their rice
> > > bowl.
> > 
> > ..yeah, billions is thrown into modifying rice genome to get it to
> > do what an avocado a day can do for your health, I dunno about the 
> > rest of mankind, myself I like exciting food, but I think I'd prefer
> > an avocado a day in a rice diet, over an 100% rice diet, especially 
> > if the rice is genetically modified to "do what an avocado a day 
> > can do for your health", but then again, that's just me.  ;-)
> 
> You're right, but, given the shrinking farm land from exploding
> populations, a food stuff that does double duty would be very useful.
> 
> Of course, a Modest Proposal to solve the population problem might
> be of some use.
 
..looks like it's being taken care of.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.