OpenEuphoria

Re: New proposal for math.e

• Posted by Fernando Bauer <fmbauer at ho?m?il.com> Aug 03, 2007
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Hi All,

I would like that Euphoria could be easily used by all programmers in the world,
in particular, not only for English speakers. To minimize the learning
effort to non-English speakers, I suggest to take into consideration:

1) Choose the most international known word that can be used to describe its
  intention;
  2) Use the minimum quantity of characters that still makes sense;

In particular, I think the functions "greatest", "greater", "lesser", etc. are
much less international than "max", "max2", "min2" proposed initially by
Juergen. Also, in many equipments, datasheets, specifications, even in other
languages, use the same words: min, max, ...
In case of mathematical functions, I think a good source is electronic
calculators and other computer languages.
The item 2, improves the efficiency in reading, writing and debugging the code,
reducing several costs and helps the item 1 in increasing
the probability that several languages start with (or have) the same letters
(Ex.: maximum = maximo(Portuguese), maximum (French), ...)

Regards,
   Fernando