Re: [stack] Advantages of cat, joy ..?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Don Groves wrote:

> Once used to this way of actually forgetting about all the
> syntax crap, it becomes just as readable, and far more
> succinct than any Pascal-like language.
> --
> don
>

Can the same be said of shorthand w.r.t. natural language?  (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand)

In practice, I think a lot of the extra surface area (redundancy,
delimiters, grammatical rules) that is built into popular programming
languages (as well as natural writing systems), is there to serve the human
mind.

Joe


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