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What impact do type sigils have on programmers?

Some languages, such as BASIC (STRING$), Perl ($scalar, @array, ...
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What evidence exists on using & and | as logical operators instead of && and ||?

I’m working on a small, dynamic language that isn’t going to include bitwise operators so I was thinking it was a bit unnecessary to use && and ...
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Is colorForth's unique syntactic approach helpful to the programmer?

colorForth, from Forth creator Chuck Moore, is a dialect of Forth where colour of the source text is semantically important. There is no typical syntax: programs are pure sequences of words, where the ...
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