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Re: Paul Graham's Arc is released today... what is the long term
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| Marco Antoniotti 2008-02-12, 4:32 am |
| On Feb 11, 5:56=A0pm, Ron Garret <rNOSPA...@flownet.com> wrote:
> In article <8763wvd6p6....@z at.nl>,
> =A0Joost Diepenmaat <jo...@zat.nl> wrote:
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> "fn" is only two keystrokes too, and IMHO looks a lot better (and is
> much more reminiscent of "function") than /. (which really ought to be
> .\ if you want it to look like a lambda).
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Yes, but /. or /_ (looks like an L) are much mure Perlish! Which is
one of the driving forces of programming today.
Cheers
--
Marco
"Perl is the programming language whose design goal is to increase a
programmer's self-esteem" (paraphrase of a Steele-Gosling exchange at
OOPSLA 2007)
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