From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-05 14:48:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Organization: Canadian Mind Products Reply-To: roedy@mindprod.com Message-ID: <2fkqhtk3flsq46hofavm03icngknbppc3o@4ax.com> References: <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9fgagu$6ae$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:47:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.76.128.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 991777652 24.76.128.193 (Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:47:32 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:47:32 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10408 comp.lang.ada:8198 comp.lang.awk:2795 comp.lang.clarion:21158 comp.lang.java.programmer:73857 comp.lang.pl1:788 comp.lang.vrml:3525 Date: 2001-06-05T21:47:32+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:44:31 +0200, Dirk Bosmans wrote or quoted : >Do you mean the way they are highlighted in Excell formules? Wonderfull, isn't >it. On each IDE review I write I mention this in the TODO list It is exciting when Microsoft adopts radical new ideas like this, I mean as in Sir Isaac Newton's mathematical notation or Knuth's TeX for something a little more recent. I wonder when the 2D graphic nature of the screen will dawn on the authors of Java IDEs. I think they fear future shock if they attempted it. We Java programmers are such old fogies glued to our glass TTY metaphor. see http://mindprod.com/scid.html For more detail, please look up the key words mentioned in this post in the Java Glossary at: http://mindprod.com/gloss.html If you don't see what you were looking for, complain! or send your contribution for the glossary. -- Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products Custom computer programming since 1963. Ready to take on new work.