Mikhail V wrote:
Those things cannot be easiliy measured, if at all,
If you can't measure something, you can't be sure it exists at all. > In my case I am looking at what I've achieved
during years of my work on it and indeed there some interesting things there.
Have you *measured* anything, though? Do you have any feel for how *big* the effects you're talking about are?
There must *very* solid reason for digits+letters against my variant, wonder what is it.
The reasons only have to be *very* solid if there are *very* large advantages to the alternative you propose. My conjecture is that the advantages are actually extremely *small* by comparison. To refute that, you would need to provide some evidence to the contrary. Here are some reasons in favour of the current system: * At the point where most people learn to program, they are already intimately familiar with reading, writing and pronouncing letters and digits. * It makes sense to use 0-9 to represent the first ten digits, because they have the same numerical value. * Using letters for the remaining digits, rather than punctuation characters, makes sense because we're already used to thinking of them as a group. * Using a consecutive sequence of letters makes sense because we're already familiar with their ordering. * In the absence of any strong reason otherwise, we might as well take them from the beginning of the alphabet. Yes, those are all based on "habits", but they're habits shared by everyone, just like the base 10 that you have a preference for. You would have to provide some strong evidence that it's worth disregarding them and using your system instead. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
