Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org>: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > > On 6 August 2010 06:08, "Vinzent Höfler" <jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net> > wrote: > >> Alexander Klenin <kle...@gmail.com>: > >> > >>> C-like operators reduce the number of required punctuation -- > >>> I always think that the extra punctuation is bad for readability. > >> > >> Rght. Shrt sntncs r mch sr t rd. > > > > Punctuation <> vowels. > > Well, let's all communicate binary. > > You then have to know only 2 letters: 0 and 1. > Things can't be made more simple than that.
Yes, back to the good old times where we typed hex listings out of badly copied magazines. Programming was so much easier when all was needed were the characters from 0-9, A-F, space, and newline.[1] Vinzent. [1] And a lot of time to find the typo that crashed the computer. -- GMX DSL SOMMER-SPECIAL: Surf & Phone Flat 16.000 für nur 19,99 ¿/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
