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Scheme was created 16 years before Visual Basic and has none of these problems, so I don't see what the age of the language has to do with how difficult it is t
by ptx 4y ago
Scheme was created 16 years before Visual Basic and has none of these problems, so I don't see what the age of the language has to do with how difficult it is to understand. (Also, Python and Visual Basic were actually both created in 1991, so they're contemporary.)
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- mynameisvlad 4y agoBasic was created 11 years before Scheme, and VB was itself derived from Basic, so would have had much of the same design decisions and considerations as a result.
- ptx 4y agoThe question I was addressing was whether it was "easy to understand". I'm sure there are explanations for why it's such a complicated language, such as e.g. the "call" statement probably being there for compatibility with QBASIC which required it in some corner cases.