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> Adopting standard notations across the field could offer huge benefits They skipped the related xkcd. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
by DJBunnies 6y ago
> Adopting standard notations across the field could offer huge benefits
They skipped the related xkcd.
https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- christrotman 6y agoIronically the only thing that is ever standard about standards is that the same XKCD comic will always be brought up
- irjustin 6y agowow, you got downvoted pretty hard & fast. tried to help coutneract because while that joke is played out - there's a reason that joke is played out.
- Semiapies 6y agoYes, because people post it robotically whenever the words "standard" or "new" come up.
- 082349872349872 6y ago1968 on adopting standard notation: https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/002/765/597/original/4d101197e020f780.png https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/002/76... (judging by the picture of Susie at her desk, development environments' handwriting recognition was awesome in 1968, which explains Landin's 1966 comment in Next 700: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf p. 160 > "[The offside rule] is based on vertical alignment, not character width, and hence is equally appropriate in handwritten, typeset or typed texts.")