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A comment on Language and Structure in Non-Programmers Solutions to Programming Problems [pdf].

Re:Language and Structure in Non-Programmers Solutions to Pr... by mangecoeur on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:15PM (#11515545)
An interesting point - a lot of people explain their solutions using "when ...", but very few languages use 'when' as a keyword (coffeescript being one of the few popular ones).
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Re:Language and Structure in Non-Programmers Solutions to Pr... by pekk on Sunday April 17, 2016 @03:45PM (#11515962)
How should it work? Should it work like "if," define an event handler? The word itself is very natural but assigning it a definite meaning isn't as natural.
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