Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!jwohl From: jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: <1991Mar30.181932.20686@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 30 Mar 91 18:19:32 GMT References: <1991Mar25.145441.1@happy.colorado.edu> <1991Mar28.104619.1@happy.colorado.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 28 In article <1991Mar28.104619.1@happy.colorado.edu> hsrender@happy.colorado.edu writes: >In article , jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >>> [...] >> >> Huh? Did you never see?: >> [...] >> T = Sin (X) >> >> W = W + 1 >> 2 1 >> >> I saw stuff like that all the way from elementary school onwards. What I >> NEVER saw was: >> [...] > > [...] I can't wait for the soon-to-be-released-by-several-companies pen computers to appear, and proper software dev. environments to indulge the software engineer. Not only can a programmer apply common mathematical notation (subscripts, sets, vector calculus, etc.), but notation can be expanded to include concepts such as object private/public members, relationships to other objects, etc. English can't possibly be my dream notation. I deal in algorithms, which can most succinctly be described in standard math symbols. -- Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu