Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:20 PM 8/15/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> > The ultimate target of a program's source code is the *programmer*.
> > Programmers, being people (well, more or less... :), work best with 
> symbols
> > and rich context. Stripping contextual clues out of code does the
> > programmer a disservice.
>
>Then every proposal so far which would eliminate distinguishing symbols,
>and/or the things they distinguish, is on the wrong track, eh?  Yep.

Nope. Tossing the worthless and confusing ones is good. Tossung the useless 
and distinguishing ones is bad.

                                        Dan

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