Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Compiler code (was a flame fest) Message-ID: <2378.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1991 08:34:38 GMT References: <1991Apr2.100807.13471@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Apr16.001748.26530@uncecs.edu> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 30 Quoted from <1991Apr16.001748.26530@uncecs.edu> by urjlew@uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj): > If a language causes this much controversy in just a variable/constant Some people cause controversy, like the way that a learner complains about how a pencil needs sharpening from time to time. > declaration, and does not define any specific order for evaluations, It does. * before +, do things in brackets first, etc. > and does not have all the arithmetic operators (e.g. power), and It does. Power is not an arithmetic operator. Those are +, -, *, / and %. :) > does not have a computed go to (for branch tables) .... A what? > How is it that an glorified assembler for the DEC PDP 11 has become > the language of choice for assembler hating CS students? Don't know about this. The guy that 1st got us using C when I was a student was also the guy that took the course which did PDP 11 assembler. Maybe the closeness of the two leads C programmers to believe that C (ideal) is really efficient. -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Patterns multiplying, re-direct our view" - Devo. ***