bearophile wrote:
Max Samukha:
Ah, it is simply the unfortunate comma expression evaluated to 3.
Comma expressions need to go. Thanks.
There are so many design holes in the C language that's the other
languages must be really bad to be worse than C :-) Designing
languages is hard.
Appreciating language designs is subjective. IMHO C has a remarkably
good design. It has an awkward precedence for the shift operators, an
odd syntax for function declaration, a few conversions are messed up...
other than that, there's a lot of good things to say about it. I think
it's considerably better designed than e.g. Fortran, which is not much
older. And look at Pascal - whereas on the outside it looks so clean and
well-designed, it is virtually useless in its standard incarnation.
Not wanting to start a language war, but to just say C has plenty of
design holes and then patronize it with the comment that designing
languages is hard - well, you better have a hell of an argument up your
sleeve.
Andrei
