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nevin.j.liber nevin1 at cbnewsc.ATT.COM
Thu Jul 6 09:47:16 AEST 1989


In article <13960 at lanl.gov> jlg at 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 at ihlpb.ATT.COM  (312) 979-4751



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