JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI ...

In last month's column, I walked through the two syntaxes for defining "function datatypes" in TypeScript. I showed the JavaScript-like syntax, which looks like this: var FirstName: (cust: Customer) ...

Why do most programming languages only return a single value from a function? Wouldn't support for more "natural" outputs be better?