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This is an interesting example, because back then when I learned BASIC (around age 7 on a Vtech Precomputer 1000 [1]), I couldn't understand why the for loop wa
by captainmuon 9y ago
This is an interesting example, because back then when I learned BASIC (around age 7 on a Vtech Precomputer 1000 [1]), I couldn't understand why the for loop was called "for". Why am I doing this "for i"? How does "i" benefit from this? I didn't know the mathematical idiom "blabla for a value of i equals 10".
I was also strangely afraid of the word INTEGER, which I read as INTER-EGER. "Integer" has no meaning to a kid, it's just called a number (as opposed to a dot-number or a fraction).
On the other hand, I never had problems with the fact that is was using text.
[1]: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/324/324 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/324/324
- jbverschoor 9y agoHaha. I read utilities as "ultilities".
- jgamman 9y agoi read all the Asterix comics pronouncing Julus Kazar ;-) Then repeated at post-grad chemistry when first asking a question out loud about Orger Electrons (Auger - more like Aubergine, prior to lectures introducing them) - prof was non-plussed... Reading and talking huh ;-)