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Exactly. It would be nice if someday someone realized a language shouldn't be constantly trying to teach the programmer something about computers. The best language would do as much of the work as possible by having a default for everything and by assuming as much as can be assumed. The point is not to reaffirm over and over what a variable is and how it is stored. We should learn that once in a text book and then get some work done. If you are designing programming languages for a living then maybe you should be concerned with that. This is called division of labor.


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