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(Fwd) Announcing C+- [humor]
Some more good geek humor . . .
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From: "Hugo Simao" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 14:33:46 -0500
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: (Fwd) Announcing C+- [humor]
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From: "Steve Sashihara"<[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:43:46 -0400
Subject: Announcing C+- [humor]
Announcing: C+- (Pronounced "C More or Less")
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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Editor's note: if you even laughed once, you're a fellow
nerd.
Steve Sashihara
President, Princeton Consultants Inc.
2 Research Way, Princeton NJ
Phone: 609-987-8787 * Fax: 609-987-0033
E-mail: [email protected] * Web: http://www.
princeton.com
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Some Smart Guy
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