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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems
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Date: 26 Mar 91 17:08:48 GMT
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In article <jls.669768656@rutabaga> jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim
Showalter) writes:

   I'll be damned: it only took the C community 25 years to realize
   something that has always been intuitively obvious to language
   designers/trainers--that English language words are superior to
   cryptic symbols.

It all depends on the application, and how you define "superior."  I'd
rather do vector calculus with "cryptic" symbols than as word problems,
for example :).

Maybe we should make everything a word ... and we could do away with that
pesky syntax stuff ... Hmm.  We seem to reinvented Lisp.

Now, personally, I think Lisp is the right way to do programming, but I
will admit to being weird :).
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