MEP 00 - The Zen of Mathcad The Bad Idea Fairy was drunkenly wandering through my brain, stomping down the grass with his size 13 boots, singing off-key, scaring the squirrels, and littering the place with ... well, bad ideas.
However, whilst I was pretending to tidy up, I looked at one of those ideas and thought, "Hmm. Maybe he'd stolen that one from his twin brother, the Good Idea Fairy (you can't tell them apart, sometimes)?".
The idea? "Now that Mathcad 11 has introduced Python Scripting, maybe it's time to introduce a Mathcad equivalent of PEP 20?".
Instead of proposing a "Feature Request" or reporting a suspected bug, perhaps we could introduce an MEP (Mathcad Enhancement Proposal)?
Starting with:
MEP 00 – The Zen of Mathcad
1. >>> Range Variables Are Not Vectors <<<.2. Think in two dimensions for layout and data.3. Be like Zathras-- cover all possibilities. Zathras does not want other people being confoosed.4. Yesterday's friendly hard limits