> There is a special display in my imaginary hall of fame of bad design
> decisions for the use of = and == in C and its blind adoption by C++,
> Java, Perl, etc, along with the associated use of "expr ;" as a statement.
>
> That's my view ;-)
Well, I agree with yout view about the C language design.
But now is too late;-)
My point is more practical: my students know one syntax, I don't have a
lot of hours for the course, most of them won't be software developers but
rather software users, so if I can do more interesting things it is not
bad.
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Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
