Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Wade Ward]

"Damien Kick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> This thread of conversation also popped into my head when I was waiting in 
> line at the Starbucks in the building in which I work.  I've been ordering 
> a lot of Americanos lately.  I always ask for a small Americano and the 
> person taking my order always calls out my drink as a "tall". With respect 
> to Starbucks, calling a beverage which comes in the shortest cup used in 
> the store a "tall" has a perfectly well defined meaning.  But that doesn't 
> make it any less ridiculous.  Of course, it was mentioned elsewhere in 
> this thread that context is important.  And it is.  To use the Starbucks 
> analogy, for someone to criticize Starbucks because their tall drinks 
> really are actually quite short would be ignoring the significance of the 
> context of Starbucks' abuse of the English language.  But, again, that 
> doesn't make Starbuck's use of the word any less ridiculous.  However, at 
> least at Starbucks, when I use the "wrong" word, they don't start 
> lecturing me.  They know what I mean and simply go ahead and translate it 
> to Starbucks newspeak.

I, as a tall Americano, have always taken ordering the smallest espresso 
beverage possible as something describing the preference of the orderer, as 
opposed to the beverage itself.

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Re: ACM SIGAPL / APL2007 Conference / Montreal / one week away

[Wade Ward]

"Gosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> On Oct 20, 10:46 pm, rbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Oct 15, 5:22 am, Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Conference page
>> > // with links to program details //
>> > (updated Friday 10/12)
>>
>> >http://www.sigapl.org/apl2007.html...
>>
>> At APL2007, I'll be announcing the release of the APEX APL compiler,
>> version 0.0.0, under GPL Version 2.
>> If you can't wait until then, you can download it for Dyalog Linux 
>> atwww.snakeisland.com.
>>
>> Bob
>
> Congratulations on your compiler.
>
> I looked through your pages and came across this
>
> "[This article originally appeared in the ACM SIGAPL Quote Quad, vol.
> 21, no.1, September 1990.]
>
> The APL character set has contributed, more than any other facet of
> the language, to its lack of acceptance in the computing community at
> large. The character set is a metaproblem -- not a problem in and of
> itself, but a creator of other recurring problems of hardware,
> software, ergonomics, and psychology. The adoption of new, ASCII-base
> dialects of APL, such as J, is suggested as one solution to the
> character set problem. "
>
> This is also the reason for why I will not be downloading your new
> compiler until there will be a J version of it, something I hope will
> be coming soon.
>
> I can not use the APL character set at all.
> It is too mixed up with my national characters.
>

witch ones?
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