condition convention 'if (10 == j)...'
Chris Shaw
cdshaw at watmum.UUCP
Fri May 3 05:21:04 AEST 1985
This argument looks like the kind of nonsense one hears when infix versus
postfix notation is discussed. Like when in high school, everyone has a
Texas Instruments calculator, and the rich kid in the class brings in a
Hewlett-Packard for the first time. You get to hear such delightful garbage as:
'But Reverse Polish isn't NATURAL !!'
similarly with
'But "if( 10 == j )" isn't NATURAL !!'
Come on, folks, surely we are not mindless drones, afraid to think for our
supper ? The (10==j) idiom is an effective error-catching heuristic, and
its inventor should be viewed with admiration. Anyone who seriously has
trouble with this minor variation shouldn't be in this business, or should
at least take a more professional attitude.
Chris Shaw watmath!watmum!cdshaw
University of Waterloo
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