Breaking backwards compatiblity

[James Miller]

On 13 March 2012 16:10, Simen Kjærås <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 03:50:49 +0100, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Simen Kjærås" <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:op.wa28iobk0gpyof at biotronic.lan...
>>>
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:07:06 +0100, Walter Bright
>>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/11/2012 12:32 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm convinced that colleges in general produce very bad programmers.
>>>>> The
>>>>> good programmers who have degrees, for the most part (I'm sure there
>>>>> are
>>>>> rare exceptions), are the ones who learned on their own, not in a
>>>>> classroom.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Often the best programmers seem to have physics degrees!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Eugh. Physicist programmers tend to use one-letter variable names in my
>>> experience. Makes for... interesting reading of their code.
>>
>>
>> D is great for physics programming. Now you can have much, much more than
>> 26
>> variables :)
>
>
> True, though mostly, you'd just change to using greek letters, right?
>
> Finally we can use θ for angles, alias ulong ℕ...

That might actually make it /more/ readable in some cases.

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James Miller