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Re: Currant Bun

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From: Tim Bradshaw
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00
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* Mark Tyndall wrote:

> StyleOfNaming is much easier to read than styleofnaming or STYLEOFNAMING. 
> If you're worried about typos, get an IDE that has some form of
> Intelli-type (ie it knows what functions/variables are in scope and
> completes the name/brings up an available list when you ask.

Good buzzword.  But I wasn't comparing it with either of those, I was
comparing it with style_of_naming.

> How the hell would I do subtraction?  Basic doesn't, Fortran doesn't. 
> Which (d*mn-fool) languages do?

Lisp.

--tim
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From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/21
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