I've remarked that if programmers wrote literature all you'd get is a set of unique words and a reference numbers telling you the placement of each word in the text - on the basis that this is a more efficient way of handling the book (no redundant words!)
Luckily for the worlds art and culture, we're not involved in the design... On Apr 22, 12:41 pm, Peter Becker <peter.becker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ruben Reusser wrote: > > When I was a younger programmer I always wondered why we don't have a > > symbolic programming language free of any text - except maybe for > > resources. Should be easier to parse and would be fair to everybody. > > ... then he encountered APL and stopped dreaming :-) > > But seriously: I think languages should be defined in terms of an AST. > It just won't buy you much, though: your libraries still need names for > all the methods and while you might still be willing to use mathematical > symbols for your collection API it probably ends there. > > Peter > > > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Todd Costella > > <todd.coste...@entero.com <mailto:todd.coste...@entero.com>> wrote: > > > Jeff just posted this on his twitter feed: > > http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1564775356 > > > <quote> > > c'mon. What serious language has characters wearing little tiny > > hats? àèìòù áéíóúý âêîôû ãñõ äëïöüŸ Åå? or beards? çÇ -- I REST MY > > CASE! > > > about 4 hours ago from web > > > codinghorror > > Jeff Atwood > > </quote> > > > sigh. welcome to diversity. > > > (Yes I realize this is said tounge in cheek. Maybe.) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: javaposse@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:javaposse@googlegroups.com> > > [mailto:javaposse@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:javaposse@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Mwanji Ezana > > Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 4:24 AM > > To: The Java Posse > > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Les CastCodeurs == Java Posse in French > > > On Apr 17, 4:27 pm, "Todd Costella" <todd.coste...@entero.com> wrote: > > > If I heard correctly, one of the main reasons they fellows are > > doing the podcast is that they work all day in English and wanted > > to have some outlet to discuss technical topics in French. I have > > a ton of respect for folks that speak multiple languages. > > > > It's something we (English) North Americans just take for > > granted that we'll do a Google search and find an answer in > > English. I do wish the fellows the best of luck with their > > Podcast. I'll be following along as best I can keeping up with > > Java news. > > > That reminds me of Jeff Atwood's recent statements on his blog and the > > Stack Overflow podcast about English as the only language that counts > > for programmers. For someone who's created such a successful piece of > > social software, I'm surprised he didn't see why people would want to > > talk about programming in their own language. > > > Mwanji > > > -- > > Ruben Reusser > > headwire.com <http://headwire.com>, Inc > > 949 595 4365 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
