Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!)
Grant Edwards
ge at nowhere.none
Fri Jul 28 11:47:26 EDT 2000
In article <slrn8o39hn.3ok.grey at teleute.rpglink.com>, Steve Lamb wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:14:31 GMT, Ben Wolfson <rumjuggler at cryptarchy.org>
>>If I type 1, I think "integer". Sorry. This is true outside
>>the realm of programming. If I'm talking to someone online and
>>I want to express the idea of a string containing the character
>>'1', I will write "1" or '1'.
>
> Is it? How many non-programmers would do that? You do it only
> because you are a programmer who is used to catagorizing data
> into different types.
Why does "what non-programmers do" matter when designing a
programming language?
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