because…four extra characters…
nope, don't get it. Don't care to.
also, how is "set this to that" HARDER to read than "this = that". for one, the latter is more ambiguous.
But again, please, the entire obsession with minor bits of extra typing in programming is something I've never understood, nor do I care to have it explained to me. I understand the history of it, but we no longer need to worry about filling 4K of RAM.
I find it depressing that in many ways, programming is still stuck in the mid 1980s.
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"I've long said that we'll know computers have arrived when there's no need for people like me. The fact so many everyday people have to turn to interpreters, consultants, experts, classes, training, and technophiles to use their computers and put them to work, to me, represents a fundamental failure of the industry."
--Geoff Duncan, 8/28/06