Hi,
I hope that his hasn't been discussed to death in the past but I quite often
encounter cases where developers have unwittingly created a file or directory
that has a name clash with either a system import or a pip installed library
import. This can be very confusing to new users! And, of co
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:16 AM Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas
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> On Nov 7, 2019, at 19:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> > And I do the same with the operators that you disparagingly call
> > "ASCII soup". I touch type them. What's the difference, other than
> > that I can transfer my kno
On Nov 7, 2019, at 19:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> And I do the same with the operators that you disparagingly call
> "ASCII soup". I touch type them. What's the difference, other than
> that I can transfer my knowledge of typing English?
Well, there’s also the fact that you can touch type them
Abe Dillon wrote:
I don't disagree that infix notation is more readable because humans
have trouble balancing brackets visually.
I don't think it's just about brackets, it's more about
keeping related things together. An expression such as
b**2 - 4*a*c
can be written unambiguously without
On Nov 7, 2019, at 22:35, MRAB wrote:
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> There was a version of APL on the Sinclair QL, which, IIRC, replaced the
> symbols with keywords. I don't know how well it did.
The OP started the thread complaining about J, which is a much more systematic
ASCIIfication of APL carefully designed by h
On 2019-11-07 20:30, Paul Moore wrote:
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 18:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:40 AM Martin Euredjian via Python-ideas
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> > Was your use of APL on a machine with a dedicated APL keyboard?
>
> I've done both. In the early '80's it was not uncommon t
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 18:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:40 AM Martin Euredjian via Python-ideas
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> > > Was your use of APL on a machine with a dedicated APL keyboard?
> >
> > I've done both. In the early '80's it was not uncommon to find terminals
> > with AP
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> > Why not use a more consistent notation like add(x, y) instead of x +
> > y when we know addition is a function and all other functions (usually)
> > follow the f(x, y) notation?
> > Because math is old.
> No, it's because infix notation is *more readable* than function
> notation when formula
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:40 AM Martin Euredjian via Python-ideas
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> > Was your use of APL on a machine with a dedicated APL keyboard?
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> I've done both. In the early '80's it was not uncommon to find terminals
> with APL keyboards. IBM, DEC, Tektronix and other made them. Once the IBM
> Was your use of APL on a machine with a dedicated APL keyboard?
I've done both. In the early '80's it was not uncommon to find terminals with
APL keyboards. IBM, DEC, Tektronix and other made them. Once the IBM PC era
took hold most of APL was done with either a card you'd place in front of
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 at 00:16, Martin Euredjian via Python-ideas
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> Sorry, notation is far more powerful. As I said in one of my other notes,
> people who have not had the unique experience of using something like APL for
> non-trivial development work simply don't get it.
Was your use of
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