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To: Brumar89 who wrote (48356)	3/6/2014 4:18:20 PM
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Evolution doesn't explain the origin of programming languages .... Repeating yourself again & again? Because there are PCs therefore evolution is false? That is one great big god-of-the-gaps you're arguing, might as well say the earth is 6,000yrs old & dinsoaurs were vegetarians.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (48356)	3/6/2014 4:45:38 PM
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There is an old joke that says "a camel is a horse designed by a committee". Among programming-language people, this joke is almost as popular as the legend about programming languages designed by committees. In any case successful languages are raised rather than designed, they follow a bottom-up process, starting as a small language, usually with modest additions & subtraction, just as we would predict in evolution. You keep repeating the same nonsense over & over, language evolved as intelligence emerged & evolved, starting at the end of the process does nothing to explain its beginnings.