Re: Re: Perl 6 language -- change in hyperoperator syntax

I've always been amused/irritated that programming languages inflict American English on the rest of the world. Whether you're French, Chinese, or Greek or Malay, you have to program in English: if/then/else, while, open, ... As a Canadian, I'm especially frustrated at having to use the American spelling of color, instead of colour as used by the rest of the English Speaking world ( UK, Canada, South Afric, New Zealand, Australia, etc.), ,whether I'm looking at Java, Tk, HTML or Javascript.

So it's an interesting twist to have a unicode operator ... too bad it's a bit lengthy in ASCII. I guess/hope it will motivate people to learn to type unicode.

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TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA

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Re: Perl 6 language -- change in hyperoperator syntax by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 01, 2004 at 17:53 UTC
I've always been amused/irritated that programming languages inflict American English on the rest of the world. Whether you're French, Chinese, or Greek or Malay, you have to program in English: if/then/else, while, open, ... When I started to learn programming, one of the first things our professor told us that while the keywords "if", "then", "else", etc might look like English words, they weren't. They were just symbols, and the fact they just happened to look like English words was something we should consider a coincidence. At that moment, almost 20 years ago, I thought it was a joke. But over time, I've seen it as a valuable lesson - to be able to abstract away the "English" meaning of the word, and just see the bunch of letters as a symbol. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl 6 language -- change in hyperoperator syntax by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 01, 2004 at 18:22 UTC
Tehn aiagn, all wrdos, wevahter the lungaage, are nintohg mroe tahn slmibyoc rerpetensnatios of iaeds. Wcihh only goes to prove taht dlaiets like silnglep, grammer and pitunaucton aern't itrapnomt pderoivd the idea is clarely cvoeneyd:) Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail Hooray!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl 6 language -- change in hyperoperator syntax by Elian (Parson) on Jan 01, 2004 at 02:38 UTC
You won't have to go Unicode. Latin-1 source will work as well.	[reply]


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