"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby, Ralf, | | On Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:58 PM you wrote: | > | > Bill Page writes: | > | > | On Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: | > | > ... | > | > I would always suggest to forget about the #pile mode when | > | > you program in Aldor ... | > | | > | Why? Your suggestion seems to me only a kind of | > | linguist prejudice. | > | > I think I'm with Ralf here. I find the pile notation highly | > confusing and irritating when editing. It is one of the | > downsides I find with Python, Haskell, Axiom, etc. For me, | > it isn't different those infamous "tabs" in Makefiles. It | > is a relic from stone ages we should not carry over. | | In what sense is this notation "a relic"? Do you know other | "ancient" languages (besides SPAD) that used this syntax?
Makefile does not qualify? :-) It is NOT the language that is a relic, it is the syntax -- like the semicolons "known" to be the cancer of programming languages. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
