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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
Message-ID: <63723@lanl.gov>
Date: 21 Sep 90 17:52:54 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <9009211543.AA25709@world.std.com>, by bzs@WORLD.STD.COM (Barry Shein):
> [...]
> PL/I was definitely a bloated language with far too many rules
> violating "the law of least astonishment", [...]

I answered the bulk of this message over email.  However, it is my
that the worst violator of "the law of least astonishment" among
currently popular languages is C - by a _very_ long margin.

J. Giles