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John Cowan doesn't like the name "neoteric" and points out that: > <http://virgil.gr/1/MicroCosmicGod.pdf> ends with: > "Some day the Neoterics, after innumerable generations of inconceivable > advancement, will take down their shield and come forth. When I think > of that I feel frightened." Yes, but I think that story's beginning makes it clear that it is a light-hearted tale, not be taken TOO seriously: > "Here is a story about a man who had too much power, and a man who > took too much, but don't worry; I'm not going political on you. The > man who had the power was named James Kidder and the other was his banker. Yes, the story raises interesting moral issues, but I think the author was telling the story with a smile. And again, I *like* the conceit that this notation was developed by a 3-inch-tall technologically-advanced species, and then passed on to a grateful and unsuspecting humanity. The conceit is more interesting than reality :-). It was hard enough coming up with a unique name. prefix-expressions => p-expressions sounds like "pee-expressions", and function-expressions => f-expressions sounds like "f*n-expressions". "m" and "s" are already taken. I'm willing to entertain alternatives (got any?), but I'm not really excited about creating yet another name. It took a long discussion to get to that one. Besides, if the biggest problem is the name, life is good :-). --- David A. Wheeler