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Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

by kodifik@[EMAIL PROTECTED] May 8, 2008 at 01:12 AM

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I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit)
but posing an interesting matter of discussion.

Don't know to which point it fits, but I would like to do some rather
novel comment on operator naming:
As a non native english speaker, the first time I ever encountered the
word "if" was when learning to program. The same can be said of the
other words (for, then, else...) This caused my brain to adscribe them
meanings completely outside the context of everyday language. My point
is that perhaps this is advantageous. So, contrary to tradition (which
considers a desirable goal to write programs as close as possible to
everyday english), I found convenient that programming languages use
words different from the words of my native tongue. I suspect that is
why car and cdr have caught on vs. first end rest.




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The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"xahlee@[EMAIL PROTE  2008-05-07 16:13:36 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"Bruce C. Baker"  2008-05-07 18:53:42 
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Kyle McGivney <KyleMcG  2008-05-07 19:14:35 
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"John Thingstad"  2008-05-08 10:05:36 
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George Neuner <gneuner  2008-05-08 01:05:34 
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Jürgen Exner <jurgenex  2008-05-08 06:05:20 
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rpw3@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (  2008-05-09 22:45:26 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
George Neuner <gneuner  2008-05-10 21:01:21 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
kodifik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-05-08 01:12:27 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-08 06:52:22 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Sherman Pendley <spamt  2008-05-08 11:08:35 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"Waylen Gumbal"  2008-05-08 22:38:44 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-09 01:45:04 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"Waylen Gumbal"  2008-05-08 23:43:03 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Jürgen Exner <jurgenex  2008-05-09 07:01:02 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Jürgen Exner <jurgenex  2008-05-09 05:45:21 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"Waylen Gumbal"  2008-05-08 23:47:46 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
George Neuner <gneuner  2008-05-09 17:56:48 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"Waylen Gumbal"  2008-05-10 00:56:33 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-10 08:26:55 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Sherman Pendley <spamt  2008-05-10 12:26:45 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-10 17:38:29 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-10 17:39:42 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
usenet1.3.CalRobert@[EMAI  2008-05-08 03:25:54 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Lew <lew@[EMAIL PROTEC  2008-05-08 06:53:36 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
George Neuner <gneuner  2008-05-08 21:32:58 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
"j.oke" <jav  2008-05-08 14:39:19 
Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality
Jon Harrop <jon@[EMAIL  2008-05-08 19:02:18 

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