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From: gene@batman.UUCP (Gene Mutschler)
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Subject: Re: Question for Freeware authors
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>                               We are develpoing a versitile and colorfull
> language, but at what cost ?  Personall I like the UN*X approach to life.
> Simple and orthagonal.

Its been done.  Orwell invented just such a language, "newspeak", for the
novel 1984.  The idea, of course, was to disallow freedom of thought by
making it impossible to express unorthodox thoughts.  Just like UN*X--if
they didn't think of it, you may have a hard time doing it.
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