Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: How is C powerful? (Re: Relationship between C and C++) Message-ID: <925@enea.se> Date: 24 Mar 90 20:26:57 GMT References: <8432@hubcap.clemson.edu> <6515@eos.UUCP> <2944@castle.ed.ac.uk> <2977@castle.ed.ac.uk> <0=E20EExds13@ficc.uu.net> Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden Lines: 17 Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.uu.net) writes: >Well, the C syntax is generally pretty nice. It's got a couple of minor >boners and one major one (making the shorthand for [0] (i.e. *) a prefix >rather than a postfix operator), but all in all it's a pretty language in >an art-deco sort of way. To get into the totally irrelvant points, I have been reading this book on Unix system programming (not that I've learnt much, I still think VMS is better) which has exposed me to some excerpts of C code, and I can't say that I am overwhelmed from an esthetical point of view with all these &&, ||, {, }, ?, * etc. And it gets even worse when it comes up on a terminal and letters are used as operators. Possibly art-deco, but that's not my style. Maybe I should redirect followups to rec.atrs.programmming? -- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se