rjmoses wrote:

"if a is 5..." can be a lot clearer than "if (a=5)..." in many cases.

Honestly, no. Does "is" mean "has same value as"? Is it a value comparison or a reference comparison? Or does it mean "is an instance of..." or "belongs to the same type/class/struct definition"? Or does it mean, which is what I would expect if we spoke plain English, "a and 5 are simply two names for one single enity"? (After all, if A is 5 it means that A and 5 are the same object, like saying that Obama is the President of the USA and the President of the USA is Obama).

9 or 10 (circa 1992), if you consider Logo as a valid "first line of code". Otherwise, I was 11 when I wrote my first line of QBasic.

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1. The weather 2. The food 3. The women

Nope, doesn't compute: Italy should be at #1 then, instead it's at #45.

Italian and Pascal. I don't use Pascal anymore (currently I use C#, Java and C++ depending on the project), and slowly I'm abandoning Italian language too, since I moved from Italy to the UK.