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Why make it complicated? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is it rarer? I think a lot of modern languages go for the first option but pretty much all C style languages use the latter. It's probably a wash for which is more popular I'd think.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I'm talking about quantity not the popularity of a given language. There are certainly a number of popular languages that follow that convention