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Back in the eighties, my father taught me that the “$” character in BASIC meant “string,” so when I later picked up PHP in ‘98 I mentally thought of $someVar as
by Eric_WVGG 5y ago
Back in the eighties, my father taught me that the “$” character in BASIC meant “string,” so when I later picked up PHP in ‘98 I mentally thought of $someVar as “string-someVar” (regardless of the actual type, which was of course no problem for PHP), kept that habit for well over a decade… I think it was partially my self-disgust over such silly and technically incorrect thinking that led me to bail for Node as soon that was a feasible alternative.
The dollar sign does kinda look like a loose piece of shoestring, though