Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:23:19PM -, Smylers wrote:
>
> > I believe that having English aliases would make matters worse.
>
> I agree, in general. I was planning on writing something about this.
> Now I don't have to :-)
Pleased to be of help!
> The only thing I wou
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:23:19PM -, Smylers wrote:
> Michael Lazzaro wrote:
>
> > Here's my own argument for using "like/unlike", and "none", and a
> > bunch of other english-sounding things we haven't even talked about
> > yet.
> >
> > ... I don't think we've put much of a dent in the "re
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> Here's my own argument for using "like/unlike", and "none", and a
> bunch of other english-sounding things we haven't even talked about
> yet.
>
> ... I don't think we've put much of a dent in the "readability"
> complaints ... I think we need to care about these concerns
On 26 Oct 2002, Simon Cozens wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes:
: > But our version of "understandable" still means a steep, steep learning
: > curve.
:
: It's worse than that; for practitioners of many languages, the learning
: curve has a 180 degree turn.
:
: Quick: what are t
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> So lets have _lots_ of operators, and _lots_ of two-to-four-letter
> barewords, so long as they each do something Big, or something
> Universal. And let's locale-ize them, so that non-english-speakers can
> use 'umu' to mean 'bool', etc. Hey, why the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Lazzaro) writes:
> But our version of "understandable" still means a steep, steep learning
> curve.
It's worse than that; for practitioners of many languages, the learning
curve has a 180 degree turn.
Quick: what are the bitwise operators in Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#
Chris Dutton wrote:
> So many operators...
Well, this seems a good as time as any to jump in with what's been
sticking in my brain for a while now. Last June, Simon C. wrote a
little philosophical thing, "Half measures all around", which generated
the appropriate amount of good discussion. I wan
