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From: nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: int divided by unsigned.
Message-ID: <1560@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Jul 89 23:47:16 GMT
References: <10457@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13960@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber)
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In article <13960@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:

|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.

Could you please elaborate (in comp.lang.misc, of course)?  I'm sure
that many of us would be interested in seeing that list.

Thanks (in advance),
-- 
NEVIN ":-)" LIBER  AT&T Bell Laboratories  nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM  (312) 979-4751