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What are practical guidelines for evaluating a language's "Turing Completeness"?
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Why does C# disallow readonly local variables?
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readonly language-design immutability c#
Function overloading by return type?
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function-calls overloading language-design programming-languages
Why doesn't Java support unsigned ints?
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unsigned language-design integer java
implementing type inference
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type-inference language-design compiler-construction functional-programming
Why can't variable names start with numbers?
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variable-names language-design programming-languages variables c++
Conventions for exceptions or error codes
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language-design language-agnostic
Why was the switch statement designed to need a break?
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language-design c
Most interesting non-mainstream language?
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language-design programming-languages
How does "this" keyword work within a function?
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language-design this language-features javascript
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