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I thought the most interesting one was the use of then as a temporal construct. First this, then this, then that. That's the common use in literature, but that sense of then is implied by statement sequence or function composition in programming. When you are programming the use of then as conditional consequence is so natural you don't think of it as different to the way most people (66%) use it.


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