[r6rs-discuss] Unicode in Scheme identifiers

From: Jason Orendorff <jason.orendorff>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:58:42 -0400

Lauri Alanko wrote:
> There is no English in a computer program (except possibly in
> comments).

I consider this the flaw in your argument. Communication
among humans is one of the chief purposes of a program.
Good programmers choose names carefully.

Where I work, our code is full of names made up of
English words.

-j
Received on Mon May 14 2007 - 12:58:42 UTC