From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:24:08 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87pp7w12gn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87lhil2io1.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427366135 12492 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2015 10:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:35:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 11:35:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb58F-0008KS-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:35:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb58E-00007n-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:35:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 4yObgXTRXgWCvFznobRtPgaPG9wyN+dsWkEDJ67wNbIqCoLhzP Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmExN2ZjNGNkMTczYzgxM2Y0NGNkNWRmMWVkZGY3YmY4ODgxNjUxMg== sha1:C1rcZJX1PFy4hEGWWNbhdOAcSW8= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211074 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103353 Archived-At: "Gian Uberto Lauri" 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