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Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler

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From Tomasz Kowaltowski <tk@ic.unicamp.br>
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This discussion reminds me of the history of mathematical notation.
The notation we use today was adopted mainly in the 17th century and
contributed to rapid development of mathematics. Before that equations
were usually written in "Plain Latin" or "Plain Arabic", or ""Plain
Whatever". I don't think anybody would recommend going back ;-).

Tomasz



On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:21 AM,  <compilers-owner@lists.iecc.com> wrote:
> [Even COBOL has COMPUTE A=B+C+D as an alternative to
> ADD B TO C TO D GIVING D (or something like that.)
> English isn't a very good way to describe algorithms
> once they get at all complicated. -John]

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