From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk>
Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:45:55 -0500
Date: 2004-03-04T12:45:55-05:00 [thread overview]
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Richard Riehle wrote:
> "Les Cargill" <lcargill@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:4022F87C.BFC600CC@worldnet.att.net...
>
>>Larry Hazel wrote:
> ..
>>'C' is a right-regular language, with good orthogonality of
>>operators. That literally means "easy to read" - or at least
>>having the capacity to be writrten in a fashion that is easy
>>to read.
>
> Easy to read may not be the same as easy to understand. My
> criteria is focused more on understandability than simple readability.
> I am often confronted with mathematical formulations that use
> a set of symbols, or a combination of symbols, that I can easily
> read, but which require study and hard work to actually understand.
...
> Richard Riehle
The frequent use of C macros doesn't help either. They constantly
hide what is really being compiled, so you are frequently
inspecting #include files or CPP output to see what is really
going on.
--
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://ve3wwg.tk
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 22:13 Announcing new scripting/prototyping language Dave Allison
2004-02-05 22:19 ` Christopher Benson-Manica
2004-02-05 22:56 ` Larry Hazel
2004-02-05 23:40 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 15:49 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-02-06 16:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-02-06 16:06 ` Victor Bazarov
2004-03-04 16:40 ` Richard Riehle
2004-02-05 23:53 ` Richard Heathfield
2004-02-06 8:38 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-06 14:49 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 15:23 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-06 19:01 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-06 19:02 ` Jeff Schwab
2004-02-06 21:25 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-02-07 14:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 18:29 ` Dan Pop
2004-02-06 19:17 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-02-07 20:33 ` Y2KYZFR1
2004-02-07 20:42 ` Joona I Palaste
2004-02-08 4:54 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-09 18:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-02-06 2:09 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 8:26 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 16:23 ` Les Cargill
2004-02-06 18:15 ` Preben Randhol
2004-02-06 17:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-03-04 16:58 ` Richard Riehle
2004-03-04 17:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [this message]
2004-02-06 17:39 ` Martin Krischik
2004-02-06 1:00 ` Unforgiven
2004-02-06 3:02 ` Jack Klein
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