For some reason, I have a perfect recollection of my early programming mistakes. My first was not understanding why a perfectly reasonable test like this didn't work:pic.twitter.com/rSuqFdmGMD
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“It has become fashionable to regard notation as a secondary issue depending purely on personal taste.... [but] It has consequences, and it reveals the character of a language. A notorious example for a bad idea was the choice of the equal sign to denote assignment.”
I actually learned to program before I learned algebra, and it was a hard mental change at first
When I started coding.. I wondered why they didn't use an arrow ( <- ) instead. I had a hard time getting over the whole a = a + 1 in the beginning.
Pascal used :=, which was the most fitting choice of the limited options ASCII affords. The problem with a<-b is that it looks like “a is less than negative b”, which ought to be valid if we support mathematical conventions.
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