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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Color sensitivity?  No, BUT....
Summary: Why not?
Message-ID: <1265@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 14:06:59 GMT
References: <12565@lanl.gov> <9968@claris.com> <1318@frog.UUCP>
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In article <1318@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> In article <9968@claris.com>, krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson) writes:
> > From article <12565@lanl.gov>, by jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):

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> And then again, having fonts be significant in variable names would make
> it easy to have variables like "script-G" that pop up in Quantum Mechanics...
> (No, I am NOT serious.  :-)

Why not?  Mathematicians have been using fonts and foreign alphabets for
hundreds of years without confusion.  Just because at some stage in the
development of computers only punch card symbols were available, and at
the present time there is this atrocious attempt to limit us to the 63
characters which the 7-bit ASCII handles, we should give this up?  We know
how to use escape characters for those channels which are so limited.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)