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- Subject: Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)
- From: Michel Martens <soveran@...>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:36:21 -0300
On 9 July 2014 17:13, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the years I’ve used .NE. (FORTRAN, yes with the dots), <> with BASIC and dialects, != with C and dialects etc etc. I have no real trouble switching, though I make the odd typo. I’m a little sympathetic to those who point out that tilde is used for “approximate” in many math environments, so it reads a little oddly if you are aware of that. But I don’t think it’s a big deal.
I'm lucky because my default shell is rc from plan9, where ~ is the
equality operator :-)
