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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com ("diamond@tkovoa")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Complexity of syntax
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Date: 6 Dec 90 12:08:40 GMT
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Most of the syntax of C is not particularly difficult.
However, there is some pretty solid evidence about the declaration syntax.
For how many languages have people written, and recommended to others to
use, programs that translate declarations to English and vice-versa?
 
Also I vaguely recall some customer of the Unix operating system and C
language having a small problem, because one of their programmers put a
"break" statement in a compound statement, but it was the wrong kind of
compound statement so the "break" exited from a larger one instead.
 
Other syntactic structures that are equally complex could provide better
detection and recovery from user errors.
 
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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.


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