> No beginner programmer (the premise of the article) will loop over a string backwards. No beginner programmer will put the decrement in the test slot like you

> No beginner programmer (the premise of the article) will loop over a string backwards. No beginner programmer will put the decrement in the test slot like you did, in order to make i have valid values in the loop body. So no beginner programmer will write proper code without further practice. I thought this was reasonably obvious. The reason why both those constructs work the same they do is likely to be found within a single paragraph of a properly-written book on the C programming language. I'm definitely not claiming this is a nice feature to have in a language. I'm just trying to point out that the quality of the code a beginner programmer can write isn't a very good indicator of how high-level a language is. All beginning programmers will write shit code in any language, as low-level as Assembly and C or as high-level as Lisp or JavaScript.