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Message from discussion New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
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 More options Feb 29 2012, 6:43 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp, comp.emacs, comp.lang.python, comp.lang.perl.misc
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From: Chiron <chiron...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:43:22 GMT
Local: Wed, Feb 29 2012 6:43 am
Subject: Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!New Science Discovery: Perl Idiots Remain Idiots After A Decade!
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:09:16 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:

Personally, I think this whole issue of precedence in a programming
language is over-rated.  It seems to me that grouping of any non-trivial
set of calculations should be done so as to remove any possible confusion
as to intent.  It is one more obstacle to accidental errors in logic,
where you intend one thing, possibly overlook precedence, and get a
strange result.

Sure, mathematically it *should* go a particular way, and any programming
language *should* follow that.  Still... they don't, and since they don't
it makes more sense to be really obvious what you meant to do.

As someone pointed out, a programming language is for humans; computers
don't need them.  That being the case, it makes sense to keep things as
clear as possible.

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It's OKAY -- I'm an INTELLECTUAL, too.


 
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