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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by mikeravkine on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:41PM (#38372261)
Pascals := is concise and intuitively obvious, so obviously it never caught on.
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by avarun on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:42PM (#38374023)
Hard to type though
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by Yasuraka on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:43AM (#38376184)
Good news https://go.dev/tour/basics/10
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by kaba0 on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @03:41AM (#38376663)
So now Go has a single good feature!
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Re:Show HN: New visual language for teaching kids to code by fsckboy on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:02PM (#38469452)
>Pascals := is ...

:= is Algol's. Algol had a much bigger European influence than American, and other euro languages like Pascal followed its traditions

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