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Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question
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Gian Uberto Lauri |
Subject: |
Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:53:07 +0100 |
Emanuel Berg writes:
> Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On a different note... 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.
>
> ASCII is sufficient for all computer use that is
> indeed computer use.
If "computer use" means "computer programming", your sentence may be
true.
If "computer use" means "using a computer in everyday work", then
the sentence is "a bit" wrong.
> Why do you think mankind abandoned the iconographic
> baby-steps of the old Sumerians?
There is a remarkable number of people that still uses ideograms.
And the evolution of writing you refer to is bound more to
writing technology and speed of writing.
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