From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7a278735334db126 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-04 10:00:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn52feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language References: <4022F87C.BFC600CC@worldnet.att.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:45:55 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1078422293 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:44:53 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 12:44:53 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.c++:21978 comp.lang.c:25118 comp.lang.java:3341 comp.lang.ada:6059 Date: 2004-03-04T12:45:55-05:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > "Les Cargill" 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