Xah's Edu Corner: The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Nota

[Andy Dingley]

Xah's posting was properly encoded and will display fine in every decent
newsreader.

Well mine killfiled it straight off, which I think is entirely proper
rendering for one of Xah Lee's kookery lessons.

 

[Mike Schilling]

What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Xah Lee, 200502, 200603.

In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness.

English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all
the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and
dictions.

Though at times, English fails to express anything whatsoever.

 

[Tim Roberts]

that swaps fixed and variable pitch fonts. I gather you have one of
your fonts configured without many chars in it.

Not in Agent 3. In Agent 3, Ctrl-R toggles between "Display as Plain Text"
and "Display as Raw Message". One of the two shows quoted-printable
characters as =E3=D2=89, and the other interprets them based on the
character set in the message header.