This list begs the question of whether English language words should take precedence of those of another language or symbols such as used in APL, J and so on, for important verbs.
I'm leery of such rankings anyway. Knowledge-by-survey is not the same as knowledge. Kirby On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:02 AM, David Handy <da...@handysoftware.com> wrote: > On Thursday, October 1, 2015 4:50pm, "Andre Roberge" < > andre.robe...@gmail.com> said: > > > ... > > > The best keywords (combining result from the two groups) are thought to > include: repeat, again, loop, cycle > The worst keywords are thought to include: foreach, while, echo, > duplicate, for .... with "for" getting the worst result of all. > Now that you mention it, I have hazy memories from > 30 years ago, when I > was learning BASIC, of puzzling over the meaning of the FOR keyword and > wondering why they chose that word. So I'm not surprised to see that on the > list of difficult keywords. > However, the WHILE keyword in BASIC was intuitive for me. So it surprises > me to see that on their list of bad keywords. > David H > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > >
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