Steve Dorner writes...
Isn't the Internet an excercise in undoing Babel? In making everyone speak
the same language, so that Things get done? Has this no application
outside the computer world?
Interesting that this story should come up. It seems like the lesson of the
Babel story is that we should know our limitations and respect them.
When I see this group trying to come up with a scheme for precise labelling
of languages, it strikes me that we haven't yet learned the lesson.
Keith