From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:24:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pp7w12gn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
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"Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it> writes:
> Dan Espen writes:
>
> > My mind is made up, but interesting info like how to type Greek
> > are one reason why I commented at all. I think keyboards and
> > keys are an important issue and the current state of the art falls
> > far short. Some important keys are completely missing.
>
> There are factories producing keyboards with cherry switches and two or
> three rows of "L(num)" keys on the right side. They are backlit and some
> models have customizable light color.
If you go the keyboard way, then what you want is an Optimus Maximus
keyboard.
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/maximus/
> There is one point pro the use of "more than the ASCII set" in a
> source code.
>
> Take the example of a code-grinder-written kind of program, and
> consider code-grinders that are not native English speakers.
>
> Let's assume that our code-grinder is a native Italian (or French,
> Spanish or German) speaker and he is not used to English. Or the
> project leader does want symbols (i.e. variable names) being in
> the mother tongue of the coders.
>
> In Italian "amount" translates with "quantità", but more than often
> the symbol will be something like "quantita" due to the restriction to
> pure ASCII. No matter what the brain of the coder will feel that
> "quantita" is wrong, he will get used to it. But I think that is much
> better to have a symbol written in a language the coder is able to use
> for thinking.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
This 2-cents is what leads to Chinese ideograms.
Not really a progress.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to
keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk
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2015-03-23 22:53 if vs. when vs. and: style question Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-24 0:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-24 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-24 0:22 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-24 2:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-24 6:12 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 0:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 0:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 2:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 2:51 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 7:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 14:02 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-25 14:52 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question now Unicode Dan Espen
2015-03-25 15:24 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:46 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-25 16:02 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 17:16 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-28 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 17:46 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:22 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 15:37 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 15:45 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-29 2:41 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 3:11 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 14:05 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-29 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-30 1:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 2:25 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 18:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 0:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-30 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 9:44 ` tomas
2015-03-30 11:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 13:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 15:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-30 15:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 17:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-03-31 6:26 ` Reality and Proofs (was if vs. when vs. and: style question) Rusi
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2015-03-30 12:59 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-03-30 1:55 ` Rusi
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2015-03-25 15:33 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 16:06 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-25 16:19 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 16:23 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 17:02 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-25 18:23 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-25 18:52 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-26 9:47 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 10:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2015-03-26 10:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 10:47 ` Unicode in source (Was Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question) Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 15:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 17:07 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 17:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 10:43 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-26 13:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-04-01 22:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 22:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-29 23:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 19:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-25 22:21 ` Richard Wordingham
2015-03-25 23:21 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-26 15:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-04-01 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-03-26 4:23 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 19:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 11:37 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-03-30 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-30 2:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 3:12 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 17:49 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-03-25 21:27 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 21:32 ` Rusi
2015-03-31 16:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-31 17:22 ` Rusi
2015-04-01 18:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 20:01 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 3:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 7:59 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-27 8:06 ` tomas
2015-03-27 8:11 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-27 13:35 ` Rusi
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2015-03-27 8:56 ` Joost Kremers
2015-03-27 12:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 14:20 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 2:35 ` Rusi
2015-03-27 0:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 22:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-28 1:16 ` Rusi
2015-03-28 12:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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