In <[email protected]>, on 01/21/2015
   at 03:57 PM, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> said:

>but in C, there are bit operators, too,

PL/I has always had bit operators; what is new is shortcut operators.

>Readability and maintainability (does that word exist?)

Not in a lot of the code I've seen.
 
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