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minus-squareAqarius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
minus-squareSubArcticTundra@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoExcept that it’s not the syntax that makes programming hard, it’s the thought process, right?
It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
Except that it’s not the syntax that makes programming hard, it’s the thought process, right?