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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Message-ID: <14098@lanl.gov>
Date: 20 Oct 89 21:38:22 GMT
References: <5863@merlin.usc.edu>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <5863@merlin.usc.edu>, by jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English):
> [...]                      The utility of
> constructs like increment operators, treating
> assignment like any other expression, and so on,
> are well established.  [...]

Really?  The only ergonomical experiments I've seen on this issue
indicate that such side-effects within expressions are _detrimental_
to programmer productivity.  such experiments were done of languages
as different as APL and TOPPS.  Productivity always was _better_
for variants of the language with expression side-effects removed.