On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:00 -0400, Patrick Carr wrote:
> And yet they didn't mention the superiority of APL. Strange, that.
Do they even remember APL?
* Tony Finch [2006-10-27 18:25]:
> 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,
Look, a multiplic
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 us
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
>
> this seems to afflict the Haskell community, who write books full of
> very pretty "->" symbols and various other mathematical things, all of
> which you *don't actually use* when writing haskell source.
I was recently reading this paper
http://www.
On 25/10/06, Philip Newton wrote:
On 10/25/06, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Rebecca Breu wrote:
> > I hate Eclipse. I hate proportional fonts. I hate tabs.
>
> Sorry, did you say proportional fonts - in a code editor??
>
> Whatever will satan come up with next?!!!
Ligatures in a code editor. Becau
