Discussion on: Are the codes written/read left to right ?! (a misconception among beginners)

[Eljay-Adobe]

Let's say you want to get the user's name, capitalize it (which may be incorrect... sorry k d lang), convert it to a greeting, and print it out.

Most languages would do it this way, in pseudo-code:

string name = input();
name = capitalize(name);
string greeting = greet(name);
println(greeting);

And could do it as a one liner, also in pseudo-code:

println(greet(capitalize(input())));

See the onion-like nesting? Just like what the article is talking about. This code is read inside-out to see the order of operations.

There are other programming languages that would do the one-liner in a slightly different way, in pseudo-code:

input() | capitalize | greet | println

No onion! It reads in order, more like the first step-by-step example.

[Hooman Talakian]

I'm not sure if I understand your point, but in every instance you have listed (aside from code direction or difference in programming languages), the syntax would follow the raw data. Am I right? I mean you have a Raw data in the first place and after that you decide how to manage it (based on specific syntax of your program).

[Eljay-Adobe]

My point is only that there are programming languages which do have the codes such that they are read from left to right, like the ML family of languages.

[Hooman Talakian]

Yes, there are many syntactic differences between programming languages, but in this case we are just discussing the path of thought. Thank you for your attention