[fpc-devel] Proposal: Enhanced replacement for assignment operators

["Vinzent Höfler"]

Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> 
> > On 6 August 2010 06:08, "Vinzent Höfler" <JeLlyFish.software at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >> Alexander Klenin <klenin at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> C-like operators reduce the number of required punctuation --
> >>> I always think that the extra punctuation is bad for readability.
> >>
> >> Rght. Shrt sntncs r mch sr t rd.
> >
> > Punctuation <> vowels.
> 
> Well, let's all communicate binary.
> 
> You then have to know only 2 letters: 0 and 1. 
> Things can't be made more simple than that.

Yes, back to the good old times where we typed hex listings out of badly copied magazines. Programming was so much easier when all was needed were the characters from 0-9, A-F, space, and newline.[1]


Vinzent.

[1] And a lot of time to find the typo that crashed the computer.
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