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Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question now Unicode
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Rusi |
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Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question now Unicode |
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Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:24:03 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 8:22:28 PM UTC+5:30, Dan Espen wrote:
> Rusi writes:
>
> > On a different note...
> > For 50 years CS has been living in the impoverished world of ASCII.
> > This makes people think CS and math are more far apart than they
> > essentially/really are.
> >
> > I wrote this as my wish for python:
> > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicoded-python.html
> > Isn't it about time lisp also considered a similar line?
>
> I can't type it, I sure don't want to see it in source code.
Strange to see that comment on an emacs-list!
I guess the same comment would have been made 50 years ago when C came out
and Fortran/Cobol programmers could not find lower case on card-punch machines
[There are things called input-methods in particular tex-input method]¹
Yes, unicode has more mis-understandings than understanding (currently)
See
http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html for the plus
http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html for the minus
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¹ I prefer X-based input methods; eg after
$ setxkbmap -layout "us,gr" -option "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps"
the CAPSLOCK becomes a 'greeklock' ie after pressing CAPSLOCK
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
produces
αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ
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- Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question, Emanuel Berg, 2015/03/28
- Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question, Rusi, 2015/03/25
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