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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Robert Bernecky Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <3459FAF1.CA68D6CB@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286955135 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <344F0863.41C6@lmco.com> <3451AA9D.259C@dynamite.com.au> <62te54$p4l$1@latte.cafe.net> <3454CEB7.7D3A42B8@acm.org> <01bce3bb$5d33da00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> <34565F22.5B66C13E@acm.org> <34576752.11BAACA1@acm.org> <3458D7A4.A64A0D8F@acm.org> To: "James L. Ryan" X-Complaints-To: usenet@news1.tor.acc.ca X-Trace: news1.tor.acc.ca 878311917 29581 (None) 142.154.22.199 Organization: ACC TelEnterprises Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: James L. Ryan wrote: > In article <3458D7A4.A64A0D8F@acm.org>, Robert Bernecky > wrote: > > [snip] > > > Ability to read a text matrix containing one or more escape characters, > > whencolumns were supposed to line up. Your scheme (adding blank columns) > > could make a function display REALLY wide. The key here is that > > I'm a bit confused. The column widening used in Burroughs APL/700 to > accomodate keywords had nothing to do with function display unless the > matrix being displayed contained, say, the canonical representation of a I'm thinking of how one might have made a user-friendly matrix editor. > enabled or not. As a now somewhat humorous aside, APL/700, when displaying > a function, removed all redundant parentheses. To some this was blasphemy > and to others this was a desirable feature. (This removal was a byproduct Redundancy is in the eyes of the redunder. I think that keeping the text as entered is a much better idea, having suffered from the disappearing white space school of design. Keeping parens and white space allows the programmer to lay things out in a manner that may enhance clarity of structure to a reader, without making any difference (aside from space and cpu cycles, which don't appear to matter to people anymore... 8^}) to the computer. Bob