Kienle, Steven C [IT/0200] [mailto:steven.c.kienle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> Actually, I'm not sure an intuitive language is good, or even possible.
> Look at all spoken languages.  In the programming world, using C as an
> example, there are many things which can be intuitively understandable
with
> enough knowledge of the core, but end up causing more bugs than that
> intuition is worth:  for example
>
>      if (i = j)
>
> as an assignment and non-zero value test. That really does make intuitive
> sense if you understand the history of the language.

Then it must take a *lot* of C language history understanding to make that
statement intuitive.  Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language, once said
that this was the most common error that *he* makes when programming in C.

-- Roger Glover
   glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx



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