>A propos silly programmers:
>I don't think that the convention in informatics is silly but, given
>the Cartesian system, easily leads to silly confusions.

Max--obviouly missing some of my post--writes:

>Silly confusion?
>Next time you write (with a pen and paper) a letter try starting 
>from the bottom left corner and working your way up.
>Just an obversion for fun.

 From my post :

I don't think that the convention in informatics is silly but, given 
the Cartesian system, easily leads to silly confusions.

BTW, aren't there Asian writing systems that are bottom up (in columns)?

Perhaps the Chinese honored Monsieur Descartes better than we did, 
thereby avoiding the very confusion...

Best
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                   Herbie

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