15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
7:28 a.m.
On 15/08/2005, at 11:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I agree that missing .'s did cause some problems but I recall having
to debug far
fewer missing .'s compared to missing equal signs in c. The number of
times I've written
if (a = b) when I mean if (a == b) is the main reason I refuse to
write c programs (not even
for money).
>>>> "Huw" == Huw Davies <huw.davies at
kerberos.davies.net.au> writes:
Huw> I always wonder why people think BLISS is such a bad language. I
Huw> know that many people inside DEC don't like it as they were
Huw> forced to use it as the new "standard" language but personally
Huw> BLISS is one of my favorites.
Because it is so easy to write bugs with it, and so hard to find them. The use of . is quite warped and utterly against high
level language
principles. (The only thing that even comes close is FORTH.)
Well the everything is an lvalue is different, but in some ways it's
easier to explain
i := .i + 1 to new programmers than i := i + 1 where the context of i
changes (it's even worse
in FORTRAN where the syntax is i = i + 1 given that FORTRAN was
written for maths/physics types....
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