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In article <330A0CBD.7C3C@acm.org>, sinyaw@acm.org wrote:

> What!  Which planet you came from?  Go sit in the sigchi discussion
> group for 2 months before you post anything again.

> Sin-Yaw Wang, sinyaw@acm.org
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This email apparently doesn't work from netcom.

Since when does sigchi have an inside knowledge about what makes a language
natural or not?  Back before 'direct manipulation languages', they were
still arguing about how many angels could sit on the head of a syntax clause.

Some of the engineers I know love LabView/LabWindows, which is a graphical
language having nothing to do with the usual character-sequence-based
languages.

I personally would like to use such a language (done in Lisp, of course!).
