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It's a mistake to ignore the customer

It's a mistake to ignore the customer

Posted Dec 12, 2012 13:56 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: It's a mistake to ignore the customer by dvdeug
Parent article: GNU Guile 2.0.7 released

If the notation were + (a, b) and a __add__ b then people would use the prefix notation more.

Fortunately, programming languages seldom (INTERCAL doesn't count, being a parody) display such high levels of overt malice in their design, and such an arrangement could not (at least in our world where infix notation arithmetic is the norm) plausibly be the product of mere stupidity or laziness.


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