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What are you going to do about it? a) just use parenthesis like everyone else, or b) turn the time back to 50 years ago and change that?

Seriously, the article was just a rant. Yeah, people 50 years ago did something wrong. So what.

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My blog is about the design and implementation of programming languages; by understanding the causes of past mistakes we can learn to recognize them again today. The best mistakes to learn from are other people's!

So don’t make that kind of mistake going forward.

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