From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Word usage Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:57:33 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87oc8tqrb6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <8739qlokab.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <0DD2CA23246747E0A66AA3DDBD4003E1@us.oracle.com> <2D3825EF7031471E922841F0A32E5A22@us.oracle.com> <87vd3130p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <240BCD38C75044C682769CEE41142E4D@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292014684 13461 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 20:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:58:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 21:57:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRA2O-0006l4-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:57:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRA2N-0004sJ-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:57:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40657 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRA2J-0004s9-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:57:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRA2I-0003e2-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRA2H-0003dY-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRA2E-0006gI-6R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:57:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e71yXT8J1eSTnGsFbvamsdPs0VA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133587 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:24:19 -0800 "Drew Adams" wrote: DA> In particular, there are (unfortunately) lots of (smart) programmers who are not DA> very well versed in math. That does not mean that they cannot understand, given DA> an explanation of the (in this case trivial) syntax. You're defending a class of people that doesn't exist: smart programmers who are bad at math and somehow missed out on interval notation, and who now are attempting to use color.el. There may be one in the world, I guess... But I will point out that the same arguments can be made in mirror form against using an English description of the interval because smart programmers may be bad at English. In fact that's a more likely scenario. Ted