Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!pyramid!prls!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: ReExplanation of (x Date: Fri, 24-Oct-86 14:06:13 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.1895 Posted: Fri Oct 24 14:06:13 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Oct-86 01:14:35 EST References: <7871DMB@PSUVMA> <341@ndmce.uucp> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 13 In article <341@ndmce.uucp> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes: >I imagine that for the languages that do allow x < y < z, a large reason >why they aren't 'major' is that they are careless of semantic clarity and >orthagonality. Whether you like it or not (I don't), COBOL is certainly a major language. Nor is C, for example, especially careful about semantic clarity and orthogonality -- consider pointers and arrays. I suspect the real reason is that it makes writing the compilers slightly easier. (And I do mean slightly -- this feature is not really hard to support.) Frank Adams ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108