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On 30 août 2017 18:39 -0400, John Pratt via swift-evolution <swift-evolution@swift.org>, wrote:<br />
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<div class="">Well, here is one question: 100 years from now do you think all computers </div>
<div class="">should use vi?</div>
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<div class="">At what point would people ever have anything that ever slightly resembles</div>
<div class="">something advanced?</div>
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<div class="">Do you ever want anything that</div>
<div class="">slightly resembles science fiction, ever, in society? Or should everyone be</div>
<div class="">using vi for the rest of civilization?</div>
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<div class="">On Aug 30, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Eagle Offshore <<a href="mailto:eagleoffshore@me.com" class="">eagleoffshore@me.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">While I am in theory a fan of literate programming and enjoy integrated programming environments when they are integrated into a complete literate system (Smalltalk browsers, LISP environments, HyperCard, etc...)...In practice if its just a language and not a complete holistic system, and I can't command the entire thing with God's own editor (I speak of vi - because its "there" and it is the only editor guaranteed to be "there" on any system I am ever likely to try to access), I'm not gonna use it.
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<div class="">On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:57 PM, John Pratt via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I sent a postal envelope to the Swift team with an article I wrote, arguing that
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<div class="">Wouldn’t it be nice to have an actual multiplication matrix broken out into code,</div>
<div class="">instead of typing, “matrix()”?  It seems to me Swift has the chance to do that.</div>
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<div class="">Also: why does "<==" still reside in code as "less than or equal to” when</div>
<div class="">there is a unicode equivalent that looks neat?  </div>
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<div class="">Why can’t the square of x have a superscript of 2 instead of having “pow(x,2)?  </div>
<div class="">I think this would make programming much easier to deal with.</div>
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<div class="">I expound on this issue in my article:</div>
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<div class="">Thank you for reading.</div>
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