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From: z007400b@bc.seflin.org (Ralph Silverman)
Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language
Date: 1997/08/19
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Nick Wagg (nickw@lsl.co.uk) wrote:
: Ralph Silverman wrote:
: > 
: >         internationalization of algorithmic language
: > 
: >         one good idea involved in
: >                 the 'c' programming language
: >         is the replacement of 'eurocentric'
: >         expressions in the 'operational heart'
: >         of the language,  with more international
: >         expressions ...

: On the one hand I can see the use, but on the other hand, it seems like
: political correctness gone mad.

: -- 
: Nick Wagg (mailto:nickw@lsl.co.uk)        Laser-Scan Ltd, 
: Senior Software Engineer                  Science Park, Milton Rd,
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	lately found an old
	cassette recorder and,
	noticed symbols for
	operation ...

	[]	( box )
		pause
	<< 	( double left wedge )
		fast forward
	<	( single left wedge )
		normal advance
	>>	( double right wedge )
		reverse ( fast )
	o	( circle )
		record

	( non - standard eject found ... )
	now ...

	^	( up arrow )
		eject
	...

	recognize these ?

	increasingly ...
	certain symbolic ideas in
		programming
	have come to have similar currency
	...

	{	}
	replacing,
	BEGIN	END
	( program block )

	==
	replacing,
	.EQ.
	( logical comparison )

	and symbols for shifts ...
	<<	>>
	( left shift ) ( right shift )

	and pointer operations,
	*, &
	...

	etc.

	about the biggest remaining problems
	for fundamental symbols are
	 loops
	and
	 derived data types  ...
		( structures )  ...

	shall we stall over whether a loop
	should should be represented by
		next
		up to
		down to
		do ... while
		while ... do
	 etc. ?

--

Ralph Silverman
z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us