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That "asinine design" comes from decades old syntax practices like ALGOL, Ada, and MatLab.

Perhaps exposing yourself to other languages might inform your responses on debatably the largest technical forum in the industry: one with many developers from widely varying backgrounds.

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Heh, you don't even try to justify it, just point out prior art in some irrelevant "languages". Yeah, definitely not easy to defend such choices. Even the fact that this turns off potential Lua programmers such as myself makes it do more harm than any potential good (and I am hard pressed to find a single good thing about these asinine choices).

In mathematics, there are multiple symbols for negation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols

What is there to defend? Can you explain why it's "asinine design?" You don't actually elaborate as to why, and I've provided you both academic background in mathematics and prior art. I apologize if I've missed your point.

The fact that this discussion ALWAYS comes up when talking about Lua, with people saying they won't even try the language, should clue you in how terrible these design decisions are.

You're right: This discussion always comes up with developers who constantly have petty complaints.

I would venture to say that you're just out of touch.

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