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"Alt" <alt@card.kyiv.net> wrote in message
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> Philipp Lehman wrote:
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> > Alt ?alt@card.kyiv.net? wrote:
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> > ?And you know I do not like that almost all of such languages
> > ?has a american national attribute, it's a symbol of dollar.
> > ?I propose to substitute the symbol of dollar by neural symbol of money.

The reason that the $ is used in computer languages is that by using an
uncommon character there would be less possibility that a program compiler
or interpreter would get confused. If one uses Alphabetics, numerics,
points, dashes, etc. then programmers would have to declare meta operators
when they meant an "A" to be a letter of the alphabet as opposed to a
comiler or interpreter directive.  Even in accounting software in countries
that use "$" to mean its currency (not just the US!), it is much simpler to
treat the exception case as when one wants to use the symbol for money.
When used in writing low level programs the "$" symbol does not have any
association with money
If you want to use a language that avoids the use of that symbol, then look
at APL, which uses Greek letters for its directives.  Of course some of
those Greek characters occur in Greek money, so you are still going to have
to deal with inappropriate money symbols.
If you want to really get confused, then tell us the name of this symbol,
also encountered in computer languages: #


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