Re: [Axiom-developer] help function

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Rubey wrote:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > | No, you don't seem to have programmed much in Aldor.
| > 
| > I'm very much interested in the chain of logical inferences that led to
| > that conclusion. 
| 
| There was no "chain of logical inferences". I'm a person relying (too often
| probably) on intuition and guessing.  But I thought that if you program
| sufficiently much in Aldor, some time you will probably export a function "#",
| and some time you will happen to place this "#" in the first column by error.
| Of course, using noweb this is more likely to happen than without.

In my experience, almost all programming languages I've used have
their own idiosyncracies.  I'm quicker to make certain type of errors
in some, and less in others, given the environments I program in.  
I've found that I tend to make some mistakes that are common, some are
just plain peculiar to me; and I almost never make some `common'
mistakes.  I believe we should not underestimate the subjective,
psychological, part of each programmer in its programming habits.

-- Gaby