From: Eric Promislow <eric.promislow@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T07:49:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

No one's mentioned that the earliest versions of VisiCalc
used left-to-right precendence.  I suspect this was due to
the need to shoehorn as much as possible into the tiny
footprints of the time, and not any attempt to promote
a new visionary approach to arithmetic.  I don't know
if VC switched once 8K chips became standard issue, but
Lotus 1-2-3 certainly supported the order of precedence
we all learned in grade school.

Also at OSCON a few years ago Damian Conway, speaking from
personal experience, claimed that any modern language that
doesn't use a single '=' to indicate assignment is doomed to
failure.  Having been on the wrong end of that argument
I wouldn't hesitate to agree.

- Eric