Yes, it's from my dear Delphi, from which, i'm noticing more and more, nim took
a lot, including the result variable! That's good. But even if it was from
89's' pascal, what's wrong with that? Why should i always comply to some new
programming FASHION "imposed" by others? And this goes beyond the naming of
variables. Before there was the procedural style(the normal one if you ask me),
then a new fashion came in, the object oriented style and you had to write
everything in that style or you were considered a pariah. Entire languages were
created with that style in mind(c++, java, c#). If your language didn't include
it it was IGNORED and even ridiculed. After that came the new buzz word,
functional, and new languages were created based on that style(F# and others).
Today the new fashion seems to be GENDERLESS programming(ahaha like they are
doing in society) or INCLUSIVE programming, which means a bit of everything to
make everyone happy, procedural but also object oriented and even functional,
all in a single language. Now the latest buzz word seems to be SAFETY, again in
accordance with what the owners(who are they?) are doing in society with the
vaxxination programs for example. I tried to learn a bit of C/C++ in the last
months and God knows how many times i was told "that's not safe, don't do
that". I'm genuinely scared when i see people mindlessly complying to
everything that's decided by others
