Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

[Limin Fu <fu....@gm...>]

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=
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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=
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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=
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inserting answers, especially when there are too many questions to answer.=
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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=
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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=
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necessary, but in the end, when I started to writing program in Tao, I foun=
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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