Re: A comparison of HLA to VC++...

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:21:47 GMT

Steve wrote:
> Dorothy wrote:
> > it's not even a "language" either...
>
> No: It's a BANANA.

Correct; As I stipulated then, call it whatever you like - a "banana",
even - but it does not alter what HLA is...if I started to call Rene
"Steve" instead, then he wouldn't magically alter into someone different,
just because I used a different name...if I call my PC an "iMac", the
processor won't magically transform into a PowerPC and Windows transmute
into OS X...an "apple" tastes the same whether you call it "apple",
"pomme", "Apfel" or anything else...

A name is but a name is but a name...

Indeed, this _is_ the whole, entire difference between "syntax" and
"semantics" - if you can comprehend the meaning behind this point - as well
as central plot of a rather famous play:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."

[ Bill Wobblestick, from "Alpha Romeo and Juliet Bravo" (Act II, ii, 1-2) ]

Dorothy ;)

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