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Article #620901Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Dan Espen
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:01
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 14:01
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Gareth's Downstairs Computer <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes: > On 22/02/2018 09:51, Bob Eager wrote: >> >> Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember >> BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code in a >> label and GOTO somewhere completely different... > > BCPL, C and CORAL, to my mind, all had one thing in common, and that > was to represent most of the capability of assembly language but > presented as a high level language, ie, in a human context as > opposed to a machine context. > > AIUI the capability in C to cast a hex number as an integer, for > example, address was to enable access to memory mapped I/O and > such things as interrupt vectors. > > The major failing of C as a high level language is that logical > and relational AND and OR operators are at the same precedence whereas > logical should be higher thus ridding the necessity of extra brackets. Hmm, code that relies on precedence rather than parens is not good code. IMO. -- Dan Espen
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