Typed Python?

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 6 22:08:01 EDT 2004


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	Try programming an HP41 or earlier, before you had access to an
> onboard editor (insert/delete by instruction was about it).

This is the crux of the matter, I think. If you can see a
whole expression at once, algebraic notation is easier to
follow. If you can only see one opcode at a time, it's
no advantage, and possibly a disadvantage.

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




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