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e.g. in Sums or Products, with $$ Σ_(i=0)^(20) x² $$ you'd actually pronounce that as "summe für i = 0 bis 20 von x²", which is a good argument for where it might be from.
Yes, though isn't that the same when pronouncing math in English? (So it's a good explanation, but doing the detour via German doesn't give us any extra enlightenment?)
This is at best useless, and at worst harmful. If we start using languages other than English for code, then we'll end up balkanizing the software world. People in humanities departments can talk about things like "Chinese Poetry" and "Continental Philosophy," but in STEM, we should be above that nonsense. I should be able to read code written anywhere in the world and understand what it does. This is the same reason…
What is wrong with FORTRAN??
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Autism and humor are two irreconcilable elements; attempts to bridge them fare as well as for matter and antimatter.
I don’t think it’s fair to assume that there’s a higher incidence of autism on HN than elsewhere (bad social skills can also occur in neurotypical people), but hot damn does it really bug me that HN has such a hard time with snark.
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Dear tsanummy, help us to find the irony in my post or better the message in your post. So, what's your point? I'd love to know what you are talking about. Just to give another example: Imagine all countries in the world had the same language and people could move freely: You had massive and full competition between all nations/cities/economies for the best people and competition is good. Nobody is locked-in because…
If suddenly all countries had the same language i bet overtime, they will change and gradually evolve into multiple language.
I was interested in hearing what using Arabic as a scripting language might do to change how code might be written -- not just a translation of words, but are there features of a language that are distinct from English that it would actually change our assumptions about a scripting language? The video mentioned how the ligatures of Arabic can stretch, to allow fixed-width justification, which was neat, although it do…
INTERCAL statements all start with a "statement identifier"; in INTERCAL-72, this can be DO, PLEASE, or PLEASE DO, all of which mean the same to the program, but using one of these too heavily causes the program to be rejected
The negative reactions here claiming that everyone should use English are really disappointing, on hacker news of all places. Nobody is saying we need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Arabic. But a language such as this could be a great tool to introduce programming to people who would otherwise be turned away by the language barrier. What is important is not the keywords for, if else, etc but the concepts of logic and…
English unite. Finally, after failed attempts with Esperanto and others, lots of educated people understand this single common language. Life is much easier. I am Czech and there are so little info in Czech on any technical subject so I rather search info straight in English. What I hate about Europe are these language barriers. There are so many countries with different languages, it is annoying that one is expected…
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None and none, as what you need is to alias the symbols for most lisps.
Been a while since I've done Lisp seriously, but I don't believe that's possible, at least in Common Lisp (SBCL). While if responds to symbol function: * (symbol-function 'if) # SBCL refuses to set that value to an alias: * (setf (symbol-function 'foo) (symbol-function 'if)) # : # is not acceptable to (SETF SYMBOL-FUNCTION) Trying this with regular functions works as intended: * (setf (symbol-function 'bar) (symbol-f…
I expected specials to work in this case, but apparently not.
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* https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html "Fortran is not, of course, outdated, and it’s not at all complex. In fact, it has grown into these myths exactly because it is that good at what it does." Just wanted to share some positive FORTRAN vibes...
> Its users are scientists and engineers; not computer scientists and software engineers, but the real ones That's an unnecessary slight
The negative reactions here claiming that everyone should use English are really disappointing, on hacker news of all places. Nobody is saying we need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Arabic. But a language such as this could be a great tool to introduce programming to people who would otherwise be turned away by the language barrier. What is important is not the keywords for, if else, etc but the concepts of logic and…
English unite. Finally, after failed attempts with Esperanto and others, lots of educated people understand this single common language. Life is much easier. I am Czech and there are so little info in Czech on any technical subject so I rather search info straight in English. What I hate about Europe are these language barriers. There are so many countries with different languages, it is annoying that one is expected…