Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la

From	Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la
Date	2012-06-10 01:12 +0200
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On 2012/06/07 20:15, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Mathematicians have an implied operator between symbols.  You can't do
> that with multi character names.  Not in a way that can make sense, to
> me.

In mathematics, the spacing is different - check out TeX. For example,
the name "sin" is typeset somewhat tighter than implicit multiplication
of the three variables "s", "i" and "n". Unicode has various spaces that
might be used.

Hans

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Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la SLK Systems <slkpg3@gmail.com> - 2012-03-09 14:36 -0500
  Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2012-03-10 00:24 +0000
    Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-03-10 15:06 +0100
  Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-12 05:49 +0000
    Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-03-13 00:10 +0100
      Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@2ndquadrant.com> - 2012-06-07 18:15 +0000
        Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2012-06-10 01:12 +0200
  Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming la "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jthorn@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> - 2012-03-14 02:02 +0000

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