Re: uneditable [OT]

Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 22:19:04 -0400
Thread-topic: uneditable [OT]

On 5/6/13 2:14 PM, "Luther Fuller" <email@hidden> wrote:

On May 5, 2013, at 11:45 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

also, how is "set this to that" HARDER to read than "this = that". for one, the latter is more ambiguous.

As both a programmer and a mathematician, I have a perhaps strange opinion on this.
I prefer "set x to something", rather than "x = something" because, if I use the latter while wearing my programmer's hat, then switch to my mathematician's hat, I ought to be able to write "x - something = 0".
But, then when I switch back to my programmer's hat, I realize that I can't do that. (@#$%!)

Bingo. Equal as an assignment operator causes more problems for programming n00bs than…well many other things, because it's counter to what you learn the equal sign is for. Then the GRAND solution: TWO EQUAL SIGNS. No one EVER screws that up.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

- Balzac (1799-1850)

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