OT: The Straight Dope

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Jeff Bauer wrote:
> http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html
> 
>   "However, programmers, being loath to let extraneous
>   keys sit unused on a keyboard, have found use for
>   [backquote] as an operator in the LISP and Python
>   programming languages."

Although in Python, it's now sitting there as an
almost-unused operator, which isn't much better a
fate.

I propose we rescue "`" from this sadly neglected status
and use it for the matrix multiplication operator that
was much sought after in certain circles a while back...

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg