Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:24, Nathan Eric Norman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:12:38PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> > Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> [2003:10:19:15:19:21+0200] scribed:
> > <snip />
> >
> > > Red China Communism came from where? ;-)
> >
> > Just to quickly jump in, then back out of this trivial, off-topic
> > polemic:
> >
> > [a] There is not, nor has there ever been, a Communist government. The
> > Soviet Union, Peoples Republic of China, et al. are -- at best --
> > socialist states, which is not Communism.
> >
> > [b] There is not, nor has there ever been, a Democratic government. The
> > United States of America, Great Britain, et al. are -- at best --
> > Republics, and a Republic is *not* a Democracy.
>
> I was under the impression that Iceland and Switzerland are (or at
> least were within the past 50 years) true democracies.
Google is a wonderful thing.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2128.html
Iceland constitutional republic
Switzerland federal republic
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