English binary logic operators

[Bill Baxter]

Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> ummmm .. mathematicians use more complicated symbols and notations than
>>> programmers.
>>
>>
>> It's funny; but the early programming languages were designed by
>> mathematicians.  Trust me, if they'd been able to use ∧ for and, and ∨
>> for or, they would have :)  On a few systems, they actually *did*.  I
>> think programmers use "simpler" notation simply because we're limited to
>> what we can bang out on a keyboard, and mathematicians aren't.
> 
> 
> I heard a story (possibly apocryphal) that the "\" character was 
> actually added to ASCII because people thought you might want to write 
> \/ for or and /\ for and :).
> 
> Max

I don't know about logical operators, but it sure is good for making 
happy stick figures.

   \o/  -- "whee!  D 1.0"
    |
   / \

--bb