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Article #985Re: How is C powerful? (Re: Relationship between C and C++)
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 1990 20:26
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 1990 20:26
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Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.uu.net) writes:
>Well, the C syntax is generally pretty nice. It's got a couple of minor
>boners and one major one (making the shorthand for [0] (i.e. *) a prefix
>rather than a postfix operator), but all in all it's a pretty language in
>an art-deco sort of way.
To get into the totally irrelvant points, I have been reading
this book on Unix system programming (not that I've learnt much,
I still think VMS is better) which has exposed me to some excerpts
of C code, and I can't say that I am overwhelmed from an esthetical
point of view with all these &&, ||, {, }, ?, * etc. And it gets
even worse when it comes up on a terminal and letters are used
as operators. Possibly art-deco, but that's not my style.
Maybe I should redirect followups to rec.atrs.programmming?
--
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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