Re: Ada self-referential operators

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <D3ruwC.GoF@world.std.com> pang@world.std.com writes:

  > the problem is the keyboard/ascii character set. it's not rich/expressive
  > enough! 

  > what does it take to use symbol/graphics to represent operators and other 
  > language constructs/elements?

   An APL keyboard of course.  ;-)

   (Exit smiley mode.)  APL has been called a "write only" language,
and I tend to use it exactly that way.  If I ever expect to need to be
able to read the code (even the day I write it), I use Ada.  This only
emphasizes the point others have been making that lots of operator
symbols may may code easier to write, but they certainly make it a LOT
harder to read.


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					Robert I. Eachus

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