dot product vs star symbol ?

[parisse]

(05-16-2015 05:05 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  Have you noticed that 2**3 performs 2^3 in CAS? Traumatic memories of FORTRAN arise. But I digress.

I never programmed in fortran, but I find ** sometimes useful, if you are on a new custom keyboard for example. Moreover typing twice * is sometimes not longer than typing ^. And ** is still useful in more modern programming language, like Python for example...