Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<
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From: Limin Fu <fu....@gm...> - 2005-06-13 09:33:34
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Hi! What mail user agent (aka mail client) do you use? I use wanderlust > and rather happen to send answers to too many recipents - Per default > it addresses answers both to the author of a message and to the list > the messages was delivered to - which only makes limited sense because > the author of a message usually is subscribed to that list and > therefore receives the message twice. That is one of the few things > mutt is better at :-) Usually I use the web browser to check and send email in my gmail acount, I= =20 find it is enough convenient, because it can group emails according to=20 topics, like a forum does. Another reason is, when I register this gmail=20 account, it didn't support POP client, though now it does. Last time I replied your post in the list by clicking "reply" instead of=20 "reply all", so it just sent it to you. This time I clicked "reply all", an= d=20 you will receive it twice :) BTW: You should consider not to use TOFU - (your) *t*ext *o*n-top, > *f*ull-quote *u*nderneath (it)[1]. There are several reasons why one > should not use it. The most important (at least to me) is that > switching back and forth between the answer and the original message > takes more time and is more confusing than reading the question that > is immediately followed by the answer. Yes, sometime I also reply in this way of breaking the original message and= =20 inserting answers, especially when there are too many questions to answer.= =20 It's really more convinient to discuss something by email in this way. The best way of finding lacking features of a programming language is > writing programs in it. If one finds out that something cannot be done > one has to decide if one wants to implement the feature(s) require for > that task or to refrain from supporting it.=20 You are right, that's what I'm doing. I started to use Tao language in my= =20 work since March, since then, Tao really improved a lot.=20 Recursion is such a > feature: FORTRAN 77 does not support it - by intention. Such design > decisions should not to be fixed for eternity but should be overhauled > now and then. Guess what? Fortran 90 *does* support recursion. I think there were something similar in Tao, which I thought were not reall= y=20 necessary, but in the end, when I started to writing program in Tao, I foun= d=20 it was important to have them in Tao :-) [1] The correct etymology of the acronym is German "Text oben > Fullquote unten" (I tried my best to provided an appropriate > translation that results in the same acronym). You did it! Limin |