| C+- (C More or Less) A subject-oriented language (SOL). Each C+- instance, known as a subject, holds hidden , known as prejudices, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages; as well as public members, known as boasts or claims. The following are overridden as shown: > better than < worse than >> way better than << forget it ! not on your life == comparable, other things being equal !== get a life, guy! C+- is , based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in other, less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of . Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are -compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional EVENIFNOT X THEN Y. C+- supports and, among only, rumor sharing. Borrowing from the lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are , and non-. rules can be suspended with the directive #pragma dwim, known as the "" . will be firmly resisted. C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard." [] (1999-06-15) |
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