Steve R.
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Since we are all stuck at home, more or less, we get to dwell on minor irritants and let them fester until they become major irritants. In this case, it would be nice if all programming languages would use a set of standardized symbols, such as the "#" for comments, "&" to concatenate strings, and to have a terminator to show where an if statement or a case statement ends.
I just happened to be working on a BASH script and have been examining a lot of threads related to that. Additionally, I was looking at using regex, but became quite confused over the different flavors. For now, attempting to untangle regex has been put on the back-burner.
I am sure that there are many good reasons for why the developers of a particular programming language such as Python have selected the special symbols that they have. However, it seems that when a person is developing a particular application, they pick and choose snippets from various languages. That allows opportunities for confusion. Seems that using certain constructs in a standardized manner would not really have an adverse effect on people creating and/or improving computer languages.
Concatenation Comparison of programming languages (strings)
I just happened to be working on a BASH script and have been examining a lot of threads related to that. Additionally, I was looking at using regex, but became quite confused over the different flavors. For now, attempting to untangle regex has been put on the back-burner.
I am sure that there are many good reasons for why the developers of a particular programming language such as Python have selected the special symbols that they have. However, it seems that when a person is developing a particular application, they pick and choose snippets from various languages. That allows opportunities for confusion. Seems that using certain constructs in a standardized manner would not really have an adverse effect on people creating and/or improving computer languages.
Concatenation Comparison of programming languages (strings)
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