Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: Bill Guion <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 08:56:24 -0400
Barry,
You just aren't old enough. Fortran in the early 60's required i = 1. Even at a Master's level, I didn't have a problem with that. i = i + 1, however, did take a little thinking.
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On May 7, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
> And therein lies the problem. To someone only educated to school grade math, maybe equality and assignment *are* the same. To people (programmers?) educated a little beyond that point, there is a world of difference between the two.
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> The first computer language I am aware of to use the equality operator for an assignment was BASIC - way back in the 70s. Early implementations of BASIC *required* the use of the keyword LET - as in 'LET X=10' to disambiguate between an assignment and an equality test. Later iterations of that language allowed the LET keyword to be optional.
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> Now BASIC may have been many things and it was the first introduction to programming for many people, but a paragon of good practice it never was, and it's worst practices should never be held up as such.
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> Barry Wainwright
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> On 7 May 2013, at 04:07, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I don't know what problems you have with understanding the complexities of x = 1, but I value my time, and I don't want to waste it being needlessly verbose, when the shorter form is just as easily understandable to anyone who has taken and passed grade school math.
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