It's fun to speculate the cultural influence on a programming language design.
There was a story Dijkstra told in his "Discipline of programming" - he gave his students a task where they had to process a set of items or something like that; and most did it in left-to-right order.
The only one to work right-to-left was Syrian or Egyptian - i.e. native Arabic speaker.
There was a story Dijkstra told in his "Discipline of programming" - he gave his students a task where they had to process a set of items or something like that; and most did it in left-to-right order.
The only one to work right-to-left was Syrian or Egyptian - i.e. native Arabic speaker.