in reply to Re^4: Why "arguments"?
in thread Why "arguments"?

Yes, or probably Fortran being the Indo-European Root of all higher computer languages...

Welsh would be Cobol then (isn't the longest word known to man Welsh...?),
To begin at the beginning; It is a spring, moonless night in the small town, tarless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the haunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat bobbing sea.
... etc.

And thats translated. Quite a jump there to C :
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And Perl...? Hmmm, kindof Esperanto, maybe...
La nokto rapide la ombrojn delasis,
Dum alpan vilaĝon junulo trapasis;
Li portis sur vojo la neĝa, glacia,
Standardon, kun stranga devizo ĉi-tia:
Excelsior!
or die;...

allan
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