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Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax
From: |
Gabriel Dos Reis |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax |
Date: |
12 May 2006 00:27:04 +0200 |
"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:
| Gaby, Ralf,
|
| On Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:58 PM you wrote:
| >
| > Bill Page writes:
| >
| > | On Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > | > ...
| > | > I would always suggest to forget about the #pile mode when
| > | > you program in Aldor ...
| > |
| > | Why? Your suggestion seems to me only a kind of
| > | linguist prejudice.
| >
| > I think I'm with Ralf here. I find the pile notation highly
| > confusing and irritating when editing. It is one of the
| > downsides I find with Python, Haskell, Axiom, etc. For me,
| > it isn't different those infamous "tabs" in Makefiles. It
| > is a relic from stone ages we should not carry over.
|
| In what sense is this notation "a relic"? Do you know other
| "ancient" languages (besides SPAD) that used this syntax?
Makefile does not qualify? :-)
It is NOT the language that is a relic, it is the syntax -- like the
semicolons "known" to be the cancer of programming languages.
-- Gaby
- Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, (continued)
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, Page, Bill, 2006/05/11
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, Page, Bill, 2006/05/11
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, Page, Bill, 2006/05/11
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, Page, Bill, 2006/05/11
RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax, Page, Bill, 2006/05/11