Andrew Rodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about BASIC? Aren't all the little kids today raised on BASIC? :)
I don't know about the kids _today_, but for about twenty years
starting circa 1980 most home computers came with exactly one
programming language tool, and it was BASIC -- line-num
Andrew Rodland wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
[ <> for array dimension placeholder ]
That might confuse users of languages that were not
C-syntax-influenced, who think th
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
> Larry Wall wrote:
> >Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
> >
> >Larry
>
> [ <> for array dimension placeholder ]
> That might confuse users of languages that were not
> C-syntax-influenced, who think that
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
The Turing programming language uses splat to stand in for the length of
the array, so in Turing *a[*-1]* means what Perl 5 programmers mean when
they say *$a[-1]*.
However, splat is already quite heavil
