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Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question


From: Rusi
Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:37:01 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 9:00:46 PM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon 
wrote:
> Rusi  writes:
> 
> > For 50 years CS has been living in the impoverished world of ASCII.
> > This makes people think CS and math are more far apart than they 
> > essentially/really are.
> >
> > I wrote this as my wish for python:
> > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicoded-python.html
> > Isn't it about time lisp also considered a similar line?
> 
> Take a random computer.  Type λ.  Type lambda.  Which one was easier?

Take a random computer. Start notepad
Take a random computer. Start emacs
Work out the relative probabilities of failure

Sorry... "Random computer" arguments dont work (or can be made to work any way
you choose)


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