Re: New proposal for math.e
Juergen Luethje wrote:
>
> Fernando Bauer wrote:
>
> > 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), ...)
>
> I think these are good arguments, but other people don't like those names.
> So I personally don't know what we should do now ... 
Why not to use the synonyms?
Just some set of the identical routines under different names?
For example, in bilingual Euphoria, every standard routine is
defined twice, with English name and with Russian name.
I know, the synonyms are not very good for the technical,
scientific and programming tasks and texts, we must avoid them,
but there are some exceptions from the common rules.
Maybe it is a case for such an exception?
At least it is a simple way to be good for every personal taste.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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