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I don't hold it against any language, but it certainly breaks with common convention. The number of simple off by one errors I had when I started writing Lua wa
by alexeldeib 8y ago
I don't hold it against any language, but it certainly breaks with common convention. The number of simple off by one errors I had when I started writing Lua was a bit irritating.
- ModernMech 8y ago> but it certainly breaks with common convention That depends on which circles you run in. If you're a programmer, yeah, it breaks with common convention. If you're a scientist or engineer, not so much. When writing a programming language for scientists and engineers you have a choice: do I stick with programmers' conventions or do I stick with engineers' conventions? I've had the pleasure of teaching both MATLAB and C++ to freshmen engineers. For them, they get off-by-one errors in C++, not in MATLAB.