nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber) (07/06/89)
In article <13960@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: |The principle of least |astonishment is considered, by most designers, to be something worth |obeying. C rarely does. In fact, there have been many studies of |various programming language features to determine the effect they |have on programmer productivity. There are perhaps a dozen features |which are consistently found to be damaging to productivity. Of course, |C has all of these features. Could you please elaborate (in comp.lang.misc, of course)? I'm sure that many of us would be interested in seeing that list. Thanks (in advance), -- NEVIN ":-)" LIBER AT&T Bell Laboratories nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (312) 979-4751
jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) (07/07/89)
From article <1560@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, by nevin1@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (nevin.j.liber): > In article <13960@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: > [...] There are perhaps a dozen features > |which are consistently found to be damaging to productivity. Of course, > |C has all of these features. > > Could you please elaborate (in comp.lang.misc, of course)? I'm sure > that many of us would be interested in seeing that list. Well, I've been asked about 10 times for this info. So, I hope to get around to it this weekend. Look for it on comp.lang.misc. .