Re^2: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils

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Re^3: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils by LanX (Saint) on Jul 29, 2019 at 16:09 UTC
I like sigils, probably also because my first language was BASIC. But I still think they make code more readable, kind of Hungarian Notation Parsing non sigil languages is hard without syntax highlighting. * And isn't readability part of the Zen(terfold) of Python? ;) But some things are unfortunately solved in Perl 5. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice} *) On a side note: I remember having problems with English too, where the same word can sometimes be a verb, adjective and noun, where other languages have grammatical suffices. Headlines in the English newspapers are still a riddle...	[reply]
Re^4: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils by bliako (Abbot) on Jul 29, 2019 at 23:15 UTC
Here is another story about the Hungarian_Notation: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Hungarian.txt. Headlines in the English newspapers are still a riddle... Not for the trained brain in a psychological exercise marrying pavlovian psychology and the manchurian candidate for a very specific audience.	[reply]
Re^5: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils by LanX (Saint) on Jul 30, 2019 at 00:46 UTC
> nother story about the Hungarian_Notation: LOL, interesting read. :) I earned my fist hacker coins with 68000 Assembler, but I seem to remember our identifiers were allowed to be longer on the Atari-ST. No wonder no one ever heard of the Mcntsh again. ;-) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]
Re^4: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils by daxim (Curate) on Jul 30, 2019 at 10:14 UTC
Headlines in the English newspapers are still a riddle... > Newspaper headlines are written in a telegraphic style (headlinese) which often omits the copula creating syntactic ambiguity. […] The name "crash blossoms" was proposed for these ambiguous headlines	[reply]
Re^5: Thx, St. Larry, for the Beauty of Sigils by LanX (Saint) on Jul 30, 2019 at 13:53 UTC
I help blind kids! YOU could help, too! Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice}	[reply]