Thinking in Array Languages with Alex Shroyer
Software Unscripted
How to Recognize for Loops in a Procedural Language
In a procedural language like C, for example, you often encounter things like doubly nested for loops. So the double nesting is a pattern and a C programmer learns how to recognize that pattern. In an array language, I might think of that entire chunk of like four tokens as one unit. It's sort of more like replace a for loop with a single character that means the same thing. And then if you see two of them in a row, you recognize the pattern, right?
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