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by jghn 4235 days ago
It's more natural to you (and to be fair, most programmers who have used OOP languages) purely because you're used to languages which work that way.
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andreasvc 4234 days ago
No, it is not some arbitrary choice, it confirms to the [second] most dominant word order in natural languages: subject-verb-object.
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canjobear 4234 days ago
In fact, the most common word order in natural languages is subject-object-verb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93object%E2%80%9...

But SVO is a close second, and certainly more common than verb-subject-object (the equivalent of `function(arg1, arg2)`).

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RivieraKid 4235 days ago
> purely because you're used to languages which work that way.

You don't know that. I think that for people new to programming both styles can be natural, depending on the specific situation.

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jghn 4235 days ago
I agree, and that was largely my point.

People discuss certain styles as being more natural, but in nearly every case (including this syntactical debate) I assert that it is solely due to what the most mainstream languages do and thus what people are more used to seeing.

That's not the same as being natural

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