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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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On 7/25/2013 4:43 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 07:10 PM, Lew wrote:
> [ SNIP ]
>
>> OTOH, a cloud language (what *is* a "cloud language"?) might not be
>> named with a variant
>> of some Latin word for a type of cloud.
>>
> I'm trying to wrap my head around that too, as in "what *is* a 'cloud
> language'"?[...]

     A cloud language is any language used in vaporware.  That is,
any language.

     (When vaporware is loudly promoted and unusually destructive,
it's thunderware.)

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Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid