VB.net was my first language, and I have a special hatred of it. (What sort of lunatic thought Dim made even the SLIGHTEST bit of sense for initializing a variable???)
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
Technically a scalar value is just a special case where an array only has one dimension and one element... I remember it from QBasic in the 90s and apparently it goes back to Fortran.
True point. Although. technically declaring a value is also called instantiation, but that doesn't make Instant a good keyword for declaring a variable. :-P
DIM was short for dimension. In early BASIC forms, it was to declare an array by indicating its size. Later it was repurposed to do any sort of declaration.
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VB.net was my first language, and I have a special hatred of it. (What sort of lunatic thought
Dimmade even the SLIGHTEST bit of sense for initializing a variable???)HAHAHAHA That's literally the first thing all VB.net developers, who generally tend to hate VB.net, say.
Even I was like "Hey what's this Dim.. oh wait, that's a variable being declared."
I believe
Dimis short for dimension. Not sure why the syntax is so array-focused.Technically a scalar value is just a special case where an array only has one dimension and one element... I remember it from QBasic in the 90s and apparently it goes back to Fortran.
True point. Although. technically declaring a value is also called
instantiation, but that doesn't makeInstanta good keyword for declaring a variable. :-PDim goes back to VB's BASIC roots. You didn't have to declare most scalar variables, but you had to use 'Dim' to 'Dim'ension arrays.
In some dialects, strings were treated as scalars and didn't require declaration, but other dialects required you to 'Dim' them as arrays.
As was mentioned, it may even go further back to FORTRAN, but that's a bit before my time.
/grognard hat off.
Be glad
ReDim Preserveisn't a thing any more :PDIM was short for dimension. In early BASIC forms, it was to declare an array by indicating its size. Later it was repurposed to do any sort of declaration.