Re: Programming language similarity

From	Derek Jones <derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Programming language similarity
Date	2022-04-25 20:51 +0100
Organization	Compilers Central
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Jan,

> Denis Roegel: A brief survey of 20th century logical notations (https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02340520/document)

This is an interesting collection of decisions made by authors
over 120 years.

What makes somebody choose a particular set of symbols.
My guess is that their past experience is a major factor,
i.e., the use of symbols they had previously been exposed to.

Of course it could be something as mundane as the characters
available on their typewriter, or their printer of the journal
the work was published in.

Then again, academics do love to do their own thing.  Perhaps
the decisions are based on the need to be different.

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