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| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler gerry.rzeppa@pobox.com (Gerry Rzeppa) (2014-11-08) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler gerry.rzeppa@pobox.com (Gerry Rzeppa) (2014-11-08) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler portempa@aon.at (Richard Hable) (2014-11-08) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid (=?UTF-8?Q?Joshua_Cranmer_=f0=9f=90=a7?=) (2014-11-08) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler bc@freeuk.com (BartC) (2014-11-09) |
| Re: language design models, was Writing A Plain English Compiler gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2014-11-09) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler tk@ic.unicamp.br (Tomasz Kowaltowski) (2014-11-10) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler gerry.rzeppa@pobox.com (Gerry Rzeppa) (2014-11-10) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler martin@gkc.org.uk (Martin Ward) (2014-11-10) |
| Re: Writing A Plain English Compiler gerry.rzeppa@pobox.com (Gerry Rzeppa) (2014-11-10) |
| From: | Tomasz Kowaltowski <tk@ic.unicamp.br> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:13:40 -0200 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 14-11-021 |
| Keywords: | design, history |
| Posted-Date: | 10 Nov 2014 15:59:34 EST |
This discussion reminds me of the history of mathematical notation.
The notation we use today was adopted mainly in the 17th century and
contributed to rapid development of mathematics. Before that equations
were usually written in "Plain Latin" or "Plain Arabic", or ""Plain
Whatever". I don't think anybody would recommend going back ;-).
Tomasz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 8:21 AM, <compilers-owner@lists.iecc.com> wrote:
> [Even COBOL has COMPUTE A=B+C+D as an alternative to
> ADD B TO C TO D GIVING D (or something like that.)
> English isn't a very good way to describe algorithms
> once they get at all complicated. -John]
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