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Article #2473Re: Complexity of syntax
From: Bruce.Hoult
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 06:50
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 06:50
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In article <1990Dec9.013923.14456@cs.umn.edu> thornley@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes: >>Most of the syntax of C is not particularly difficult. >>However, there is some pretty solid evidence about the declaration syntax. >>For how many languages have people written, and recommended to others to >>use, programs that translate declarations to English and vice-versa? >> >How many languages support arrays of pointers to functions returning >pointers to functions that return pointers to integers? If you limit >yourself to data structures that would work in FORTRAN or Pascal, you >have no need for such programs. Pascal only narrowly misses out on being able to do this, and it's cousins Modula-2 and Oberon can both do it far more readably than can C. -- Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Twisted pair: +64 4 772 116 BIX: brucehoult Last Resort: PO Box 4145 Wellington, NZ
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Bruce.Hoult From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Complexity of syntax Message-ID: <1990Dec10.065017.19736@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 10 Dec 90 06:50:17 GMT References: <9012061208.AA08577@decpa.pa.dec.com> <1990Dec9.013923.14456@cs.umn.edu> Sender: Bruce.Hoult@actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Hoult) Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 17 Comment-To: thornley@cs.umn.edu