On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: > * Mathematical notation is ideal for programming!
See also: the thousands of new programmers confused by "x = 5;" not meaning "x is equal to 5", despite what they had learned in maths class. (I'm reminded of a BASIC dialect on our 64K Z80 machines at school ca. 1985, which had an option to make the assignment operator either = or :=, IIRC. I think the switch had "becomes" in its name.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>
