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Article #620902Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:03
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:03
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On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:01:08 -0500 Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gareth's Downstairs Computer > <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > 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. So use LISP :) You can go too far though, I think it's fair to assume BODMAS in any language with infix notation, and to assume that assignment comes way down the list in languages where an assignment is also an expression. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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