On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 11:48:20 UTC, w0rp wrote:
On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 07:37:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
An example that stuck with me was that languages that follow
Algol/Pascal syntax lead themselves to less bugs, than those
that follow C like syntax.
That's probably skewed by C being the most popular language,
which is optimised for bug creation.
The guy explain that for beginner it is worse, but after 3+ years
of experience, C syntax wins. Most likely because C style has
become a de facto standard, and that the benefit of
standardization outweigh the initial confusion.
He explains that the same goes for strong typing.
