From: Marius Amado-Alves <amado.alves@gmail.com>
Cc: nma@12000.org
Subject: Re: [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 03:43:21 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-04-16T03:43:21-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8603135.951.1334573001928.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbdy9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jme7r1$eo7$1@speranza.aioe.org>
Love OT threads in this clever forum:-)
Actually there is a bit of thruth in the absurd no keyword thing: *many* keywords can get in the way of naming identifiers. Ada, for one, has a bit too many keywords, with some good identifier candidates (when, others...)
This links on thread took me on a short journey where I ended up checking out YAML, because I am looking for a good data description language. I was totally confused at section 2.3 Scalars (http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2760844)
At first I could not make anything of it, because I never understood "scalar" as anything else than something that has values (along a "scale"). [Then I still could not make anything of it because they don't seem to be addressing scalars at all, even in their wrong denotation, but that's a minor point.]
A bit net surfing... it seems there is a trend now to call "scalar" to mean any value!
Please fix this!
(Yes, I am expecting you to change the world.)
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2012-04-15 10:27 [OT] interesting reason why a language is considered good Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-04-15 11:57 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-04-16 10:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-15 12:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 6:59 ` tonyg
2012-04-17 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-15 14:05 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-15 14:21 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-15 14:54 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-15 15:34 ` Pascal Obry
2012-04-17 5:42 ` Brad Moore
2012-04-17 16:11 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 19:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 21:42 ` Robert A Duff
2012-04-17 22:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:00 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-04-15 23:53 ` Brian Drummond
2012-04-16 10:43 ` Marius Amado-Alves [this message]
2012-04-16 11:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 13:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 15:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 15:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 17:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 17:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-16 18:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-16 21:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 3:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 4:43 ` Bill Findlay
2012-04-17 7:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 22:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-18 7:10 ` stefan-lucks
2012-04-18 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-19 14:22 ` Shark8
2012-04-17 15:48 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 16:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 16:01 ` Simon Wright
2012-04-17 17:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-04-17 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-04-17 3:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-17 3:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-04-16 19:55 ` sbelmont700
2012-04-17 0:48 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-04-17 21:59 ` anon
2012-05-13 4:14 ` David Thompson
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