Re: Jeff's new programming language

[Albert Kinderman]

Sébastien Pierre wrote:

> Le mardi 16 avril 2002, à 08:38 , Efraim Yawitz a écrit :
>
> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Jeff Kingston wrote:
> >
> > > > (Do you have names for both?)
> > >
> > >
> > > I've chosen the name Nonpareil.
> >
> >
> > If I can put in my $.02, I like meaningless names (like Emacs, for
> > example) because you can search the web for them.
>
>
> Well, it's actually not meaningless to me. I'm French and 'non' and 
> 'pareil' are the equivalent of 'not' and 'same' in English. So this 
> would be 'not the same'. I like that, and salute the effort not to use 
> only English in science ;)
>
>  -- Sébastien.


In English, the word translated as "same" above is translated as 
"equal," so that nonpareil is a superlative meaning "without equal."

Al




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Albert Kinderman  California State University, Northridge
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