On 13 March 2012 16:10, Simen Kjærås <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:50:49 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> "Simen Kjærås" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:07:06 +0100, Walter Bright >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/11/2012 12:32 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm convinced that colleges in general produce very bad programmers. >>>>> The >>>>> good programmers who have degrees, for the most part (I'm sure there >>>>> are >>>>> rare exceptions), are the ones who learned on their own, not in a >>>>> classroom. >>>> >>>> >>>> Often the best programmers seem to have physics degrees! >>>> >>> >>> Eugh. Physicist programmers tend to use one-letter variable names in my >>> experience. Makes for... interesting reading of their code. >> >> >> D is great for physics programming. Now you can have much, much more than >> 26 >> variables :) > > > True, though mostly, you'd just change to using greek letters, right? > > Finally we can use θ for angles, alias ulong ℕ...
That might actually make it /more/ readable in some cases. -- James Miller
