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Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages

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Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson said:

> Another point to make. Why do we assign from right to left? Is it in
> any way natural? What's wrong with
>
>   a + b --> c "a plus b assigned to c"

Pop11 assignments run source-to-target as you write above
(using -> rather than -->), partly because of its use of
an open stack for expression evaluation.

Chris

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Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages chris dollin <ehog.hedge@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-09 14:21 +0100

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