haha operator precedence, something that is VERY important in programming (my profession on and off for the last 25 years) especially in mathematical modelling. Do you remember the fuss last year about the University of East Anglia Climate "Science" unit leaks? The media was obsessed about the emails and what they said. What was more devastating but was too complicated for them to cover was the source code of their modelling software and data sets that were exposed. I took part in a review of some parts of the code. I spent several years working for BP Research converting software written by scientists into software suitable to be used by others. Most scientists are amateur programmers and boy does it show! One of the most astounding things we discovered in the climate model software was the terrible flaws and operator precedence was one of them. The code was truly awful and it was the main reason I am now a "climate sceptic" since it looks like these people actually don't know what they are doing, so how can you take their pronouncements and prophesies seriously! (hence my use of quotes around the "Science" earlier...)
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