Re: Schools working to overhaul the art of computer programming (The Columbian)

toby said:

On May 28, 3:01 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jg.campbell...@xxxxxxxxx said:

On May 28, 9:10 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
a...@xxxxxxxxxx said:

http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=computer-programming

It sounds remarkably like the LOGO turtle of the early 1970s. Plus
ca change, plus ca meme chose.
^^^^ c'est la

You'll find quite a few Web hits for my version, which suggests that
it has a certain mind-share -

It's not a question of "mindshare";

Mind-share is certainly a factor when it comes to language usage. I
abhor the fact that a very useful English word, 'gay', has been
hijacked by a minority community so successfully that very few people
realise it ever had an earlier meaning - and so that meaning will
eventually be lost, except in dusty reference books. I have two or
three movies where the word is used in its original sense, and I
recognise that eventually someone watching any of those movies with me
is bound to misunderstand what was meant. Nevertheless, if I were to
say that the use of the word 'gay' to mean 'homosexual' is a /wrong/
use, people would say I'm being ridiculous. Why? Because this aberrant
usage has gained such a huge mind-share, that's why.

that one can find any kind of
error with Google does not make them correct.

This is a language thing, not a mathematics thing. Languages are
whatever people decide they are. To call my rendition an error is of
course your right, but nevertheless the expression "plus ca change,
plus ca meme chose" is not an unreasonable representation of "always
different, yet always the same", even if it isn't in canonical form.

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Richard Heathfield
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