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It's a mistake if your goal is to have the language implemented and become popular. Otherwise I like the notation. Computer languages would be different if Asc
by nealabq 6y ago
It's a mistake if your goal is to have the language implemented and become popular. Otherwise I like the notation.
Computer languages would be different if Ascii had provided code points for ∧ ∨ ∩ ∪ ≡ ↑ etc. It's too bad so much real estate is wasted in the control chars.
- kps 6y ago\ was invented so that ∧ and ∨ could be written /\ and \/. In retrospect, a mistake. Original ASCII (1963) had ↑, but it was converted to ^ in 1967 so that it could double as a circumflex. (Also ←, which was a good assignment operator; it's too bad _ didn't replace \ instead.)