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Article #620905Re: Computer science hot major in college (article)
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:25
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:25
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On 26 Feb 2018 16:25:37 GMT Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-02-25, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > > > 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. > > BODMAS? Haven't heard that one. Explain, please. Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. -- 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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