Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 06:50:10PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>On 10/1/09, Robert C Corsaro <rcorsaro_AT_optaros.com> wrote:
>> But you'll have to agree that maths are impossible to do in plain text.
>
>s/impossible/inconvenient/
>
>otoh it would be nice if maths had a plain text representation with a
>proper formal language, well defined scoping rules, semantics.. and if
>one came up with a new construct he would define it inside the
>language

Lisp, haskell, and python all have coherent representations of
complex maths. Lisp, of course is usually in Polish notation,
but the clarity doesn't suffer when it's properly formatted.

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