Re: Software vendors not using Ada but C

[howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis. ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@gatech.edu (Robert Firth)]

In article <1993Jun23.190753.8583@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> yow@pat.mdc.com (Bill Yow) 
writes:

>Well, when I was in school the C class I took (in 86) the professor would not
>allow us to use ().  The reason, he felt that a good C programmer should not
>need to use () but should know all of the precedence rules.

Good grief.  And I thought Jean Ichbiah was paranoid when he refused to
give "and" and "or" the same precedence rules in Ada that they had in the
propositional calculus.  Not verbatim, but approximately: "Robert, a
programmer should never have to learn a new precedence rule as part of
a language.  The language should use only rules everyone already knows."

As usual, Jean, you were right.