pitman

Reading Kent Pitman it is clear that the design was driven by the needs of very large, very sophisticated programs.

Macsyma is the earlier computer algebra system, which Kent Pitman mentioned in that post.

Nigel Pitman explored several in these pictures, and VieElm pointed out another.

I know that German has its own and that Pitman has been adapted to Spanish, but there are other alternatives.

This is what I've been told by my mother, who learned and used Pitman shorthand.

Kent Pitman explains it much more eloquently than me[1].

It should obviously be replaced with Pitman Shorthand.

It doesn't have to be written by Guy Steele or Kent Pitman for it to be useful, by the way:-P It's not as codified as the Unix manpage format.

I tried (briefly) Pitman once, but the idea of discerning two characters only by their thickness never sounded too good to me (plus, it ruled out using a pen).

If the editor of the Lisp Machine, which was used by people like Steele, Stallman, Pitman had no problems using tabs, it can't be that Lisp has a technical requirement not to use tabs.

Kent Pitman's idea of "languages as political parties" [1] seems to me to offer the best perspective on the surprising reliability of C.

I'm aware that there was something called a "fast writing" system in Korea and a version of Pitman-Graham in Japan.

At the same time, it sounds like Pitman tried to convince Wolfram to represent floats as the ratio of two bignums, "with lots of other hidden bits to assure that any decimalization had enough bits to be precise." I can understand Wolfram not particularly wanting to taste any of that pie.

Taking Pitman's story at face value, it sounds like Wolfram wasn't very sophisticated about these things, and wasn't open to listening to explications.

Pitman's shorthand was the one used by secretaries when they took dictation.

The Pitman-Yor process is a (two-parameter) generalization of the Poisson-Dirichlet process.