(From Myron Campbell ca 1996)
Subj:	Level 2 Offline

After long debates, we have chosen the language to be used for programming
the level 2 trigger for next run.  We will use C+-, pronounced "C More or
Less".   

Unlike C++, C+- is a subject-oriented language (SOL).  Note that this is
not subject as in "subject-verb", but as in "a queen and her subjects",
which will make control from the cluster queen easier.  Each C+- class
instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members, known as prejudices,
agendas, (and hidden agendas) or undeclared preferences, which are impervious
to outside messages, as well as public members known as boasts or claims.
Note that boasts or claims, once made, cannot be changed.  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
	 <>    actually the same, only different by claims

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 replaced with PROBABLY and MAYBE supplemented with
CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional
fuzzy categories.  This construction allows all outrageous claims of
cross sections and rejection factors to be met.  All Booleans can be declared
with the modifiers strong and weak.  Weak implication is said to "preserve
plausible deniability" and was added at the request of the DoE.  Well-formed
falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-compatible with all Booleans.  What-if,
But-if and Why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional:
evenifnot X then perhaps Y.

C+- supports information hiding, shading, and, among friend classes only,
rumor 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.

C+- is equally supported on all UNIX and NOT-UNIX platforms, such as OSF-1,
VMS, Windows NT, MAC OS, RT11, CPM, DOS, LINUX, JCN, IBM, and HAL.   It will
not run on any of them.

ANSI standards for C+- in 103 variations is being sought.  C+-'s slogan is
"Standards are good - The more Standards the better"