Re: uneditable [OT]
Re: uneditable [OT]
- Subject: Re: uneditable [OT]
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 12:38:27 -0400
- Thread-topic: uneditable [OT]
it's so awesome how people who are experienced programmers are so willing
to look at something that has caused confusion for new programmers for
decades and assume it's because new programmers are stupid.
It really reminds me why I find talking to programmers to rarely be
enjoyable, and why the programmers that think that way almost never manage
to create anything humans would want to use.
On 5/7/13 2:52 AM, "Barry Wainwright" <email@hidden> 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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>
>
>--
>Barry Wainwright
>
>
>On 7 May 2013, at 04:07, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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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