Re^2: (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.

[hardburn]

The one thing I got out of VB: the idea of having two different division operators. One for integer division, and one for floating-point division. It seems like a really Perlish idea to me. Although it also seems to me that VB's type system ought to be able to tell if you're assigning to a float or to an int and Do the Right Thing. It doesn't make sense in even a nominially static typed language like VB, though it would fit right in with Perl.

[itub]

Pascal was like this: there was / and there was div.

[apotheon]

OCaml does that as well. It uses a type inference system with static typing, though, so it makes a lot of sense for OCaml.

edit: Woah, I didn't notice the timestamps here at first. This response is a little late.