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I've always understood it as coming from mathematics: if you're used to writing "let X = <complex expression>" in papers, then the high-level syntax "var X = co
by exmadscientist 6y ago
I've always understood it as coming from mathematics: if you're used to writing "let X = <complex expression>" in papers, then the high-level syntax "var X = complex_expression();" or low-level syntax "mov dstX, src" are all directly relatable.
- Someone 6y agoBut then, why call it ‘mov’, and not ‘let’, ‘set’, or ‘copy’ (“copy what is in A to B” translates nicely to “copy A,B”)