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		CraigJPerry on Aug 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stages of Denial You read it strictly right to left, weird idea to me but it’s common in the array languages - j and APL do it this way too. I believe the reasoning is something like Iverson (or maybe Whitney) didn’t like the complexity of PEMDAS in maths so decided on this rule.

razetime on Aug 10, 2021 [–]

Iverson wanted consistent symbols and rules for math notation. So it's math first, then programming language next. Makes it extremely strong with describing algorithms, but gets a bit complicated for programming.

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