On Sep 1, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:

>
> Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>> So what things do they have wrong? So that we can learn from it.
>
>  * all functions are capitalized
>
>  * BumpyCaseIsHardToRead
>
>  * square brackets for function arguments
>
>  * two square brackets for subscripts
>
>  * squiggly braces for lists
>
>  * sets and matrices not distinguished from lists
>
>  * lack of syntax in programming constructs
>
> There's really nothing to recommend any of this.


I'm with you on those! The folks at Mathematica have a lot of good  
ideas, but I certainly don't see us wanting anything from this list.

- Robert


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