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I thought it was from this usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal basically goin

by mturmon 16y ago

I thought it was from this usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_uncountable_ordinal basically going as far as possible in the sequence C, C++, ...

cosbynator 16y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but little omega is not the first uncountable ordinal (it is countable by definition), it is the first infinite one.
- mturmon 16y ago
  You know what, you're right (and if I may add, on both counts ;-). The wikipedia page I referenced, loosely summarized, is referring to an ordinal number with the cardinality aleph-1. The plain omega that I should have referenced has cardinality aleph-0. Unfortunately, the ordinal I wanted does not have its own wikipedia page. WTF? Merely countable is not notable enough?
  - barista 16y ago
    Some research project about a new language and the top comments are about how weird its name is and how the character looks like a butt? I'm speechless.
palish 16y ago
Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass.
- derleth 16y ago
  > Unfortunately, it looks precisely like an ASCII ass. In my font, it's wide enough to be a Unicode ass.
  - Bolyuba 16y ago
    Reddit-style thread?
eru 16y ago
You should start your sequence with C--, another popular language in the C family.