On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:57:10 +0300 "Andrii V. Mishkovskyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not everybody has grown in English-speaking community, you know. And > knowing math quite good, I prefer writing "x = y" instead of "Set x to > y".
OMG! It's COBOL. Wasn't there an aborted attempt at writing a language based on English back in the sixties or seventies? I seem to recall that it failed mainly because it turns out that programmers don't like to speak in English, even when it is their first language, to describe computer algorithms. If that wasn't true then pseudocode would look a lot more like English than it does. In fact, pseudocode tends to look a lot like Python. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
