Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: a style question Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 15:55:52 GMT References: <7341@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <8660@ncar.ucar.edu> <1990Sep30.220839.20183@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Oct1.174625.22061@zoo.toronto.edu> <2039@excelan.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article bumby@math.rutgers.edu (Richard Bumby) writes: > In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > Readability, to some extent. People are used to this notation from > > mathematics, ... > Two comments: (1) Isn't it about time that we all got together and > insisted that the mathematical convention is WRONG. Given the some-hundred-years head start mathematics has on CS, I'm not sure this is a valid point. In fact, Mathematics started off using names and phrases for what we would call variables. The term rebus comes from the latin "rebus"... "the thing"... that being the typical start to what we would now call "word problems". "The thing" does this, "the thing" does that. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com