Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Tim Hochberg <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> writes:

> Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> > Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak at knm.org.pl> writes:
> > 
> >>On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:59:11 +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >>A richer alphabet is often more readable. Morse code can't be read as fast
> >>as Latin alphabet because it uses too few different symbols. Japanese say
> >>they won't abandon Kanji because it's more readable as soon as you know it -
> >>you don't have to compose words from many small pieces which look alike
> >>but each word is distinct. Of course *too* large alphabet requires long
> >>learning and has technical difficulties, but Lisp expressions are too
> >>little distinctive for my taste.
> > Well,  I would say  that kanji  is badly  designed, compared  to
> > latin
> > alphabet.   The voyels  are composed  with consones  (with diacritical
> > marks) and  consones are  written following four  or five  groups with
> > additional diacritical  marks to  distinguish within the  groups. It's
> > more a phonetic code than a true alphabet.
> [SNIP]
> 
> Admittedly, I found the above paragraph pretty hard to parse and my
> never stellar knowledge of Japanees has mostly evaporated over time,
> but I'm pretty sure you are talking about Hiragana (or Katakana), not
> Kanji.  Japaneese has three alphabets, which they mix and match in
> ordinary writing. Kanji aren't phonetic at all, they're ideograms, and
> can typically be read at least two completely different ways depending
> on the context, making reading Japanese extra confusing for the non
> fluent.

Absolutely.  My mistake,  sorry.  I wrote about katakana  and that was
not the subject.


> A random web search supplies this basic descripion of Hiragana,
> Katakana and Kanji:
> 
> http://www.kanjisite.com/html/wak/wak1.html
> 
> -tim
> 

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