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by int_19h
3478 days ago
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I can't speak for COBOL and Logo... but Java, really? When you're looking at a hello world program in it, 80% of it doesn't make sense to someone not familiar with the concept - import? class? static? void? BASIC is even worse in many respects. It starts being deceptively simple, but do you think that someone looking at these two lines: PRINT a, b;
PRINT a; b
would be able to tell the difference? Or, say, what does this do? LINE (0, 0) - (100, 100),, BF
(no, it doesn't draw a line)And then if we're talking about classic BASIC, you have to remember that A% is integer while A$ is string etc. None of that is at all obvious. Or, say, you see this: NAME x AS y
A reasonable guess would be that it renames a variable, or maybe creates an alias, right? But no - it actually renames a file with a name corresponding to a value in variable x, to a new name corresponding to a value in variable y. And many BASIC dialects will even helpfully stringize it for you, if the variables were, say, integers. |
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