Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Duane Bozarth
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 03:33 pm

Joe Butler wrote:
> 
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> One thing that _would_ be nice would be to have proper formating for
> mathematical expressions.  But then would we want an X or a * for the
> multiplication (* is already taken for convolution).
....

Well mathematically z = x y is acceptable, so by insisting on an
operator in every instance has already gotten away from the ideal...

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