From: "Frank J. Lhota" <FrankLho.NOSPAM@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with C++?
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:39:09 -0500
Date: 2011-02-19T11:39:09-05:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <00d1a6ec-be5f-43fe-9a0f-b01e055a5632@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com>
On 2/19/2011 10:24 AM, Marco wrote:
> "
> Use "=" rather than ":=" for assignment. Virtually all of the most popular programming languages use "=" for assignment, which is simpler and perfectly adequate.
> "
> Yuck - this was one of the C mistakes - "==" is so goofy - I do a lot of programming in C and still think it was a mistake - Algol used := in 1960 so no excuses - saving key strokes is a stupid reason to do it the FORTRAN way but now we are stuck with it
The best symbol I've seen for assignment the left arrow used in APL and
early versions of Smalltalk. It's just as short as the C/C++ "=", it
quite nicely expresses what assignment does (moves the value on the
right into the variable on the left), and it would never be confused
with testing for equality. It's a pity that ASCII does not have a left
arrow character.
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2011-02-16 17:37 What's wrong with C++? KK6GM
2011-02-16 17:58 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 18:18 ` KK6GM
2011-02-16 20:25 ` Chris Moore
2011-02-20 4:47 ` Chuck
2011-02-20 4:45 ` Chuck
2011-02-16 19:35 ` Robert A Duff
2011-02-16 20:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 23:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-16 20:03 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-02-16 20:09 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 17:39 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-03-01 15:52 ` Martin Krischik
2011-02-16 23:27 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-16 18:32 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-16 19:09 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 19:36 ` KK6GM
2011-02-16 20:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 18:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 18:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 19:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 19:38 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 19:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 20:11 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 20:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 21:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 21:32 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 21:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 21:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-02-17 20:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 20:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 22:54 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-17 23:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 23:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 23:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-17 23:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-18 6:56 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-18 19:58 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-18 20:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-18 20:10 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-18 20:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-18 22:00 ` Edward Fish
2011-02-17 19:34 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 20:49 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-16 21:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 23:07 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-16 23:23 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 20:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 20:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-16 23:35 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-17 3:35 ` Shark8
2011-02-17 20:54 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 22:19 ` Shark8
2011-02-17 11:04 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-17 11:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-17 14:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-17 16:29 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 17:32 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-18 6:54 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 21:04 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 7:02 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 22:50 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-17 23:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 23:08 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-02-19 15:24 ` Marco
2011-02-19 16:39 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2011-02-19 19:51 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-19 22:36 ` Anonymous
2011-02-19 22:45 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-20 0:55 ` Nomen Nescio
2011-02-20 1:51 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-02-20 9:49 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-02-18 7:07 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 21:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 22:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-18 3:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 9:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-18 11:34 ` richard
2011-02-18 11:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-18 13:26 ` richard
2011-02-18 14:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-17 20:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 7:11 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 17:17 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-02-20 4:35 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 7:16 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 7:27 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 7:28 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 3:41 ` Mike Sieweke
2011-02-17 13:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-18 5:15 ` Mike Sieweke
2011-02-18 6:41 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 6:39 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 15:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 17:31 ` Martin
2011-02-17 19:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 18:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 6:45 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 6:38 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 8:31 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 9:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-17 13:38 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-17 16:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-17 16:25 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-17 17:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-17 18:09 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-02-18 5:59 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 18:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-18 6:23 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 17:27 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-17 18:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-18 6:15 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 13:37 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-02-20 4:33 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 19:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 9:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-17 19:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 9:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-02-17 19:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 6:20 ` Chuck
2011-02-17 19:19 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-17 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-17 21:08 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 0:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-02-18 6:12 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 7:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-18 6:07 ` Chuck
2011-02-18 17:38 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-02-17 11:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-02-17 20:47 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-20 4:41 ` Chuck
2011-02-20 10:28 ` Brian Drummond
2011-02-20 14:48 ` Britt Snodgrass
2011-10-04 20:51 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-04 21:00 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-05 1:53 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-10-05 2:13 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-05 4:48 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-05 6:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-05 6:39 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-05 5:13 ` Niklas Holsti
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2011-10-05 6:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-08 1:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-08 8:39 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-08 23:11 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-06 13:19 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-10-06 14:01 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-10-08 1:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-08 13:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2011-10-08 17:49 ` Jeffrey Carter
2011-10-08 23:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-10 13:31 ` Paul Colin Gloster
2011-10-11 7:45 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 9:40 ` SPARK and other provers (Was: Re: What's wrong with C++?) Phil Thornley
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