On Saturday, 20 August 2016 02:29:17 UTC+2, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > With all due respected to the illustrious Dr. Iverson, he was in > loony-land with his two versions of minus. > > > I take exception to the "loony-land" qualification of Dr Iverson's raised minus. I think it was immensely appropriate and sadly forgotten that APL introduced the brilliant idea of discarding operator precedence in favour of making functions themselves operators with NO associated precedence. The use of a raised minus to eliminate confusion was a sensible one, one Michael Jones further justifies in its use in teaching Algebra (I still smart when I remember my confusion in Algebra classes after the teacher dropped all minus and plus signs and the parentheses she'd used until then!).
Even sadder, I find the disappearance of RPN from hand-held calculators, for which I hold HP almost entirely responsible. That APL is still available in some form or other I find emotionally,but sadly not economically, rewarding. My short liaison with the language has given me a perspective I still believe helped shape all of my computing experience since those late 1970 years. Lucio. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
