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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.lang,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: What's in a Name
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 04:01:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 04:01:41 1984
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> > From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
> > "Mary" is not entirely unknown as a Jewish name; my late
> > grandmother's name was Mary (they lived in England, in . . .
> . . .
> Golly gee, wasn't the name of Jesus's mama Mary or Maria or
> whatever is in question here?  She would be considered Jewish, right?

Now wait a minute!  The programming language MARY was named by Mark Rain
(according to Mark, anyway) and, as far as I can tell, has no religious
leanings of any sort.  It has some unusual operators and interesting
coercions, though...

Uh, by the way, perhaps you guys wanted net.nlang instead of net.lang?

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