D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

[Walter Bright]

On 5/11/2012 8:51 PM, Ary Manzana wrote:
> On 5/12/12 3:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> x + 3 = 5
>>
>> on the board and asked people to "solve for x", they would fail
>> completely. But, if she wrote:
>>
>> ( ) + 3 = 5
>>
>> and asked them to "fill in the circle with the number that makes it
>> work", they all went "of course, it's 2!"
>
> When I read "solve *for* x" I don't understand it. What do you mean "for x"?
> Like doing a favor to x?
>
> In Spanish we say "hallar el valor de x" which means "find the value of x"...
>
> I'm not a native English speaker so I don't know if "solve for x" sounds natural
> if you haven't done ecuations before... but for me it doesn't. :-P

It's normal English mathematical jargon.