I am an old school COBOL programmer. Not only did I pick up an OO language in a fortnight but the project manager remembered me from sixteen years earlier when he was a trainee (in the same company, it values its employees but buys in freelancers like me as and when it needs them) . I was also the one who did a full hierarchic expansion of their OO login and found out why it was taking ten times longer than it should have. Languages are not important - understanding what they di is.
"a we-drive-on-the-left-side-of-the-road-because-our-ancestors-used-to-wield-swords-in-their-right-hands-while-horseriding country"
I suppose that makes sense if you're the aggressor, and want to slash at every rider who comes your way. If you're a defensive rider, you'd want to ride on the right, to make it more difficult for the oncoming rider to attack.
(Is that really the reason given? I thought it was because you just wanted to be sinister instead of dominant)
The reason was to have your whip in your right hand and towards the middle of the road so you could make your carriage/cart horse move to the side of the road to avoid oncoming vehicles. The driving on the right was introduced by Napoleon as an exercise in personal power - Look when I say jump people say how high.
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I am an old school COBOL programmer. Not only did I pick up an OO language in a fortnight but the project manager remembered me from sixteen years earlier when he was a trainee (in the same company, it values its employees but buys in freelancers like me as and when it needs them) . I was also the one who did a full hierarchic expansion of their OO login and found out why it was taking ten times longer than it should have. Languages are not important - understanding what they di is.
They already did in a Fred Saberhagen's Berserker Short Story "Smasher"
"a we-drive-on-the-left-side-of-the-road-because-our-ancestors-used-to-wield-swords-in-their-right-hands-while-horseriding country" I suppose that makes sense if you're the aggressor, and want to slash at every rider who comes your way. If you're a defensive rider, you'd want to ride on the right, to make it more difficult for the oncoming rider to attack. (Is that really the reason given? I thought it was because you just wanted to be sinister instead of dominant)
The reason was to have your whip in your right hand and towards the middle of the road so you could make your carriage/cart horse move to the side of the road to avoid oncoming vehicles. The driving on the right was introduced by Napoleon as an exercise in personal power - Look when I say jump people say how high.