On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 06:01, ben via cctalk wrote:
> What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
Unmodified IBM Model M from 1991 in my case.
⇒ is compose, equals, greater-than
Snag is, I can't get one going the other way... I get
less-than-or-equal-to etc: ≤ ≥
--
Liam Proven – Pro
On 2020-05-28 12:01 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>
>>> At the moment I have no wish to fight a web site,to find what should be
>>> simple information.
>>
>> It's a picture. They can be useful.
>
> That is why clicking with my mouse did nothing.
>
The fancy arrows in Fira Code are ligatures. (Yuk! I'm not yet a convert)
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MonospacedProgrammingFontsWithLigatures.aspx
ASCII-63 had a backward-arrow that disappeared in later revisions of the
standard, replaced with underscore (and also an upward-arrow which was a
> On May 28, 2020, at 12:01 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> ...
> What keyboard are you using to get the fancy arrows?
A Unicode keyboard? My Mac will happily produce those characters and thousands
more.
paul
On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
At the moment I have no wish to fight a web site,to find what should be
simple information.
It's a picture. They can be useful.
That is why clicking with my mouse did nothing.
I like if eif else fi for if statements.
What keyboard are you u
On 2020-05-27 9:19 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 5:47 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>> On 2020-05-27 6:56 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>>>
It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of people code today in
relatively modern language
On 5/27/2020 5:47 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2020-05-27 6:56 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of people code today in
relatively modern languages:
https://imgur.com/ESMFgNb
Arg a web page!
I'm sorry if
On 2020-05-27 6:56 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>
>> It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of people code today in
>> relatively modern languages:
>>
>> https://imgur.com/ESMFgNb
>
> Arg a web page!
I'm sorry if the sight of a URL is shock
On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of people code today in
relatively modern languages:
https://imgur.com/ESMFgNb
Arg a web page!
The first thing that comes to mind is "How many terrabytes" for "hello
World".
This might mean modern
On May 27, 2020, at 4:59 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk
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>> On May 27, 2020, at 4:25 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
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>>> Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1 time
>>> sharing system at Stanford.
> On May 27, 2020, at 4:25 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
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> On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1 time
>> sharing system at Stanford. This memorandum includes the syntactical
>> definition of the language a
On 2020-05-27 4:25 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1
>> time sharing system at Stanford. This memorandum includes the
>> syntactical definition of the language and a number of sa
On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1 time
sharing system at Stanford. This memorandum includes the syntactical definition
of the language and a number of sample programs as well as a brief description
of the o
On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
And here’s a 1964 Stanford TimeSharing Project Memo by McKeeman and Wirth on
Gogol:
Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1 time
sharing system at Stanford. This memorandum includes the syntactical definition
of
On May 27, 2020, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Al Kossow wrote:
>>> Algol W was from Eroupe?
>> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there
>
> I wonder if there's any connection to Stanford's SAIL language?
Good question. I believe the answer is “Wirth was initially involved with
> On May 26, 2020, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 5/26/20 6:39 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>>
>>> Algol W was from Eroupe?
>>
>> Algol W was from Stanford, written by Wirth when he was there
>
> Actually, by Dick Sites
>
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/cs_techReports/STAN-CS-71-230_Algol
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