Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: suggestions for word names? Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:39:43 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <52ff710a$0$2846$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <53038001$0$2900$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <53047523$0$2873$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:28574 On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:11:04 -0500, Hans Bezemer = wrote: > Rod Pemberton wrote: >> No. He's not a talkative guy ... So, did he actually say that? > > For your reading pleasure I've pulled some actual Moore quotes on usin= g > English words, including "I'M": > > The choice of I=E2=80=99M is another invention of Moore, who says: > "I detest the word LOGON. There is no such word in English. I was look= ing > for word that said, =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99m . . . =E2=80=9D It was a natu= ral. I just stumbled across > it. Even though it=E2=80=99s clumsy with that apostrophe, it has that = sense of > rightness. All these little words are the nicest way of getting the > =E2=80=9CAha!=E2=80=9D reaction. If you think of the right word, it is= obviously the = > right > word. If you have a wide recall vocabulary, you=E2=80=99re in a bette= r position = > to > come up with the right word. > > I would distinguish between reading nicely in English and reading = > nicely. In > other languages such as Spanish, adjectives follow nouns. We should be= = > inde- > pendent of details like which language we=E2=80=99re thinking in. It d= epends on = > your > intention: simplicity, or emulation of English. English is not such a= = > superb > language that we should follow it slavishly." > > ENDCASE A man who struggles with wording in a programming language that is word = = bound, by choice not design, most assuredly would prefer symbols. C is clearly= = far richer in symbols than Forth. I would dare to posit that he would love = C. Hatred or repulsion of COBOL or aversion to it is usually a key factor i= n people preferring symbol rich languages. Rod Pemberton