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Agreed. In the list of disadvantages, we don't see "many professional programmers expect the ++ and -- operator" or "beginners will be confused because old code
by tostitos1979 11y ago
Agreed. In the list of disadvantages, we don't see "many professional programmers expect the ++ and -- operator" or "beginners will be confused because old code examples on the web will stop working".
- joshavant 11y agoThis argument feels like 'legacy for legacy's sake'.
- gozo 11y agoFrankly I think discussions like these show how not all programmers are engineers. Cutting down on complexity and ambiguity is a good thing. Because even if you can handle something, when you have teams of 100+ people with 100 000+ lines of codes, all those potentials for errors quickly adds up.
- legulere 11y agoWhich is actually quite common. Unicode is ASCII compatible and on Windows you still have to do carriage return before a line feed, although there are no teleprinters involved.
- redthrowaway 11y agoWhich wipes out the "easier to learn as a first language" point, and then some. Copy-pasting code from stack or somesuch only to have it not work and not know why is incredibly frustrating for a beginning programmer. I certainly found that with wpgtr back in the day.