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From: jmartin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin)
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Subject: Re: Ada self-referential operators
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Brilliantly said (John Volan)!  This gets saved in my language design directory.

>cryptic "mathematicalese"

More like crypitic PSEUDO "mathematicalese" since we don't want to
give it any mathematical validity because it has none.

Its sickening how C has brain-damaged so many programmers out there.
"Where's my increment operators? I got to have my increment operators!
 Convenience Or Death!".  

Conjecture: (Software Engineering /= Programming Convenience)

Well maybe they are smart. Every time you add a crazy operator,
idiom, unchecked or bizarre syntactic feature, you make it harder for
outsiders to program the language.  This makes the experts in the
language more valuable, thus they get more $$$ and power!  It also
gives them that a feeling of superiority because only programmers in
their elite club are "brilliant" enough to understand their sacred
code!

Jay