OT: Programmers whos first language is not English

[Frodo Morris]

Stephen Horne wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 11:45:27 +0000, Frodo Morris
> <graham.lee at invalid.wadham.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
[superx++]

> A quick look at the samples show that this language actually has a
> plaintext form (shortx) which is then translated to XML. Which means
> it can't make any special use of XML features. To be honest, I don't
> understand the point - the XML syntax seems a redundancy rather than a
> feature.
> 

Maybe I've misunderstood it, but I thought that the actual language was 
superx++, and shortx is a cut-down version thereof (similar to inventing 
C++ first, then saying "oh but you can just use *these* instructions, 
which we'll call C").  Superx++ definitely is its own language, and 
while I haven't paid it too much attention I know that its been around 
for longer than shortx.  Read into that what you will.
-- 
FM