Re: Eclipse

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On Fri, October 27, 2006 12:21 pm, Tony Finch wrote:
>
> I was recently reading this paper
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SevenDeadlySins.pdf
> which has a few good points, but in one respect is seriously misguided. It
> proposes that introductory programming languages should use less confusing
> symbols, such as U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN instead of * and U+2190 LEFT
> ARROW for assignment. Never mind the fact that it's a struggle to even
> type the things, and that it's missing an opportunity to teach the poor
> dears about the arbitrariness and generally bad design of programming
> languages.


And yet they didn't mention the superiority of APL. Strange, that.

Pat

• Tony Finch 17:21 on 27 Oct 2006
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