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I thought this would be a link to Steele writing about Fortress. He's said something similar.
by zachbeane 16y ago
I thought this would be a link to Steele writing about Fortress. He's said something similar.
- pjscott 16y agoSteele is taking a very pragmatic approach: his target audience with Fortress is mainly scientists and people with scientific programming backgrounds, and they would love to have their programs look more like what they write on a blackboard. So Fortress comes along with a fancy Unicode syntax that trivially maps to an ASCII syntax underneath.