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Coming soon! C+- "C More or Less" Unlike C++, C+- is a subject-oriented language. Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members known as prejudices or undeclared preferences which are impervious to outside messages, as well as public members known as boasts or claims. The following C operators are overridden as shown: > better than . < worse than . >> way better than . << forget it . ! not on your life . == comparable, other things . being equal . C+- is a strongly typed language based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The Boolean variables TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in 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 ADA. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-compatible with all booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional evenifnot X then Y. C+- supports information hiding and, among friend classes only, rumour sharing. Borrowing from the Eiffel lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are intransitive, volatile, and non-Abelian. Operator precedence rules can be suspended with the directive #pragma dwim, known as the "Do what I mean" pragma. ANSIfication will be firmly resisted. C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard." Bumper Stickers Grow your own dope. Plant a man. Jesus is coming! Look busy! Go ahead and honk. I'm reloading. Give Blood. Play Hockey. I like cats. They taste just like chicken. My other car is Christine, and she's right behind you! The question of fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. If there is a tourist season, why can't we shoot them? Horn broken! Watch for finger! Hug your kids at home! Belt them in the car! On Leadership : Some excerpts from Royal Navy and Marines "Officer Fitness Reports" His men would follow him anywhere but only out of curiosity. I would not allow this Officer to breed. This Officer is not so much a has-been but more a won't-be. He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction. He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle. Technically sound but socially impossible. This young lady has delusions of adequacy. When he joined my ship this Officer was something of a granny. Since then he has aged considerably. This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port and my officers to carry him from bar to bar. Since my last report he has reached rock bottom and has started to dig. She sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them. He has the wisdom of youth and the energy of old age. This Officer should go far, and the sooner he starts the better. The only ship I would recommend this man for is citizenship. Works well when under constant supervision and when cornered like a rat in a trap. This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot. Beastly Numbers 660 Approximate number of the Beast DCLXVI Roman numerals of the Beast 666.0000000 Number of the High Precision Beast 665.9999954 Number of the Beast fdiv by 1 on a Pentium 0.666 Number of the Millibeast /666 Beast common denominator 666^(-1) Imaginary number of the Beast 1010011010 Binary of the Beast 1-666 Area code of the Beast 00666 Zip code of the Beast 1-900-666-0666 Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now! Only $6.66/minute. Over 18 only please. $665.95 Retail price of the Beast $699.25 Price of the Beast plus 5% sales tax $769.95 Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul $656.66 Walmart price of the Beast $646.66 Next week's Walmart price of the Beast Phillips 666 Gasoline of the Beast Route 666 Way of the Beast 666F Oven temperature for Roast Beast 666k Retirement plan of the Beast 666mg Recommended min. daily requirement of Beast 6.66% 5-year CD interest rate at First Beast of Hell National Bank $666 minimum deposit Lotus 666 Spreadsheet of the Beast Word 6.66 Word processor of the Beast i8068666 CPU of the Beast: Beastium Pro "Beastium Inside" 666i BMW of the Beast 668 Neighbour of the Beast 6666 PIN of the Beast 66,600 bps Modem of the Beast 666x666 Resolution of the Beast System 6.66 O/S of the Beast http://www.666.org Domain of the Beast http://www.666.org/welcome.html Splash of the Beast 666.gif Graphic of the Beast 666.exe Program of the Beast 666.java Source Code of the Beast 666.c Old Source Code of the Beast