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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: int divided by unsigned.
Message-ID: <13960@lanl.gov>
Date: 27 Jun 89 22:42:21 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <10457@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
> If you want a different language, feel free to design one.

I am.  In fact I have recent read more than two dozen books on the
subject of programming language design.  The principle of least
astonishment is considered, by most designers, to be something worth
obeying.  C rarely does.  In fact, there have been many studies of
various programming language features to determine the effect they
have on programmer productivity.  There are perhaps a dozen features
which are consistently found to be damaging to productivity.  Of course,
C has all of these features.