Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-18 Thread Cthun
On 18/02/2011 7:43 AM, Xah Lee wrote: On 2011-02-17, Cthun wrote: │ And you omitted the #1 most serious objection to Xah's proposal, │ rantingrick, which is that to implement it would require unrealistic │ things such as replacing every 101-key keyboard with 10001-key keyboards What does

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Cthun
On 17/02/2011 10:29 PM, rantingrick wrote: On Feb 17, 8:40 pm, Cthun wrote: What does your aversion to cultural diversity have to do with Lisp, rantingrick? Gee, I do hope you're not a racist, rantingrick. Why must language be constantly "connected-at-the-hip" to cul

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-17 Thread Cthun
On 17/02/2011 9:11 PM, rantingrick wrote: . On Feb 16, 4:07 pm, Xah Lee wrote: .> Vast majority of computer languages use ASCII as its character set. .> This means, it jams multitude of operators into about 20 symbols. .> Often, a symbol has multiple meanings depending on contex. . . I think in t