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
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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.