25 Nov
2018
25 Nov
'18
5:02 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 04:46:50PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[...]
Is FORTRAN considered modern enough?
[...]
What about APL? Although its structure is fairly
straight-forward,
it does, indeed, have a unique character set.
To supply this train of thought with some numbers:
- my copy of Common Lisp HyperSpec claims 978 symbols (i.e. words) on
its alphabetical index; many words have modifiers (a.k.a. keyword
options, with default values) which increases the number at least
twofold, IMHO, if one agrees that each combo should be counted as
different word, to which I would say yes
- I have read somewhere that Japanese pupil after graduating from
elementary school is supposed to know 1000 kanjis by heart (there
is a standardised set, I have a book)
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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