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On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:11:04 -0500, Hans Bezemer  
<the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> 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 using
> English words, including "I'M":
>
> The choice of I’M is another invention of Moore, who says:
> "I detest the word LOGON. There is no such word in English. I was looking
> for word that said, “I’m . . . ” It was a natural. I just stumbled across
> it. Even though it’s clumsy with that apostrophe, it has that sense of
> rightness. All these little words are the nicest way of getting the
> “Aha!” reaction. If you think of the right word, it is obviously the  
> right
> word.  If you have a wide recall vocabulary, you’re in a better 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’re thinking in. It depends 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 in
people preferring symbol rich languages.


Rod Pemberton

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  Re: suggestions for word names? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-14 10:30 -1000
    Re: suggestions for word names? Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2014-02-14 22:07 +0000
      Re: suggestions for word names? humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2014-02-15 10:00 -0800
        Re: suggestions for word names? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-02-18 05:04 -0800
          Re: suggestions for word names? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-18 05:45 -0800
          Re: suggestions for word names? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:17 -0500
            Re: suggestions for word names? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-02-18 21:38 -0800
            Re: suggestions for word names? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-19 02:00 -0800
              Re: suggestions for word names? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-19 02:44 -0800
              Re: suggestions for word names? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-19 20:13 +0000
          Re: suggestions for word names? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-19 03:49 -0600
    Re: suggestions for word names? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-15 14:55 +0100
  Re: suggestions for word names? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-14 20:44 -0500
    Re: suggestions for word names? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-15 14:52 +0100
      Re: suggestions for word names? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-15 15:43 +0100
      Re: suggestions for word names? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-15 12:06 -0500
        Re: suggestions for word names? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-15 18:30 +0100
        Re: suggestions for word names? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 16:45 +0100
          Re: suggestions for word names? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:17 -0500
            Re: suggestions for word names? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 09:44 +0100
            Re: suggestions for word names? Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 09:47 +0100
              Re: suggestions for word names? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-19 01:38 -0800
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                Re: suggestions for word names? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-02-19 03:31 -0800
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