Re: Mathematica and F# [OT]
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- Subject: [mg91603] Re: Mathematica and F# [OT]
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:40:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Murray, that's the reason why the new language has this funny "#" symbol in it ! So you can wait for A#, B#, E#, .. and in the sense of G. Orwells "new speak" we are waiting for F##, F### and F#^4 ;-) You see, the situation "only I, N, O, P, U remain!" is not so bad because you can always add one or more "#" to the name of the new language. Moreover there are more funny symbols on my keyboard that are not used in the name of a programming language and F#!&~@ should be the next step. Regards Jens Murray Eisenberg wrote: > I cannot resist noting that the name of the referenced language, "F#", > continues a somewhat alarming trend of using single letters, possibly > with suffixes, for languages names. Already there are: > > A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z > > (I cheated a bit: W never existed, but *W did.) > > To language developers, the situation is surely dismaying: only I, N, O, > P, U remain! > > Salvatore Mangano wrote: >> I refer members of this group to my blog for a review of the section of "F# for Scientists" that is relevant to Mathematica. >> >> http://semanticvector.blogspot.com/2008/08/f-for-scientists-misses-boat-on.html >> >