
&gt; have two members -- a family is a typical minimal example).
&gt; 
&gt; In fact, I would define "culture" as the hypostatic abstraction of a
&gt; community's semiotic games (including language games as a special case).
&gt; 
&gt; John Sowa

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Doug, John, &amp; All,

A couple of points:

Taking the view from a historical perspective -- The Horror! The Horror! --
what we now call "programming languages" can be seen to have developed
in the followin