> Â Â Â Â Â | Â PLEASE DO NOT Â | Â Â Â Â Â Â :.:\:\:/:/:.: > Â Â Â Â Â | Â FEED THE TROLLS Â | Â Â Â Â Â :=.' - Â - '.=:
I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit) but posing an interesting matter of discussion. Don't know to which point it fits, but I would like to do some rather novel comment on operator naming: As a non native english speaker, the first time I ever encountered the word "if" was when learning to program. The same can be said of the other words (for, then, else...) This caused my brain to adscribe them meanings completely outside the context of everyday language. My point is that perhaps this is advantageous. So, contrary to tradition (which considers a desirable goal to write programs as close as possible to everyday english), I found convenient that programming languages use words different from the words of my native tongue. I suspect that is why car and cdr have caught on vs. first end rest. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
