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Interesting piece. This line: More powerful programming languages rely less heavily on naming ... reminds me of section 1.1. of Compiling With Continuations:
by gruseom 13y ago
Interesting piece. This line:
More powerful programming languages rely less heavily on naming
... reminds me of section 1.1. of Compiling With Continuations:
The beauty of FORTRAN—and the reason it was an improvement over assembly language—is that it relieves the programmer of the obligation to make up names for intermediate results.
I remember going "Wha?" when I read that.
- geocar 13y agoIt makes a certain amount of sense though: Just think of all the times, in all seriousness, one uses `tmp` or god forbid, `tmp2` as a variable name.