On Fri, October 27, 2006 12:21 pm, Tony Finch wrote: > > I was recently reading this paper > http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SevenDeadlySins.pdf > which has a few good points, but in one respect is seriously misguided. It > proposes that introductory programming languages should use less confusing > symbols, such as U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN instead of * and U+2190 LEFT > ARROW for assignment. Never mind the fact that it's a struggle to even > type the things, and that it's missing an opportunity to teach the poor > dears about the arbitrariness and generally bad design of programming > languages.
And yet they didn't mention the superiority of APL. Strange, that. Pat
