On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote:
IIRC the Icon programming language had an exchange operator to swap the
contents of two variables.
a :=: b
C:
a = a ^ b;
b = a ^ b;
a = a ^ b;
Much more fun. Them :=: look like weird emoticons.
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Le 27/07/2015 02:28, T.J. Duchene a écrit :
The affectation operator is := instead of = in C, and the
comparison are = (instead
Le 27/07/2015 17:45, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:20:03 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote:
Or, as in APL, use = for assignment
You mean like in b+c = a ?
Interesting because assignment is an invention of imperative
languages
On 07/27/2015 07:07 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 27/07/2015 17:45, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:20:03 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote:
Or, as in APL, use = for assignment
You mean like in b+c = a ?
Interesting because
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:58:55PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
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The affectation operator is := instead of = in C, and the
comparison are = (instead of ==) and /= instead of != . The bad
choice of operators, together with other tricks is probably the main
source of bugs in C programs.
It
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:20:03 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote:
Or, as in APL, use = for assignment
Sorry, read use A (left arrow) 1 2 3 4 for assignment
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:32:06 -0400
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
But if you frequently change languages, you rapidly find:
= is a bad choice for assignment, because it also means equality.
= is a bad choice for equality, because it also means assignment.
So the only sane
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:07:30 +0200
Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote:
use A (left arrow) 1 2 3 4 for assignment
Don't understand what you mean :-)
(letter A) (left arrow symbol) (one or several values or variables)
You mean like in b+c = a ?
that would be:
(letter a) (left
On 07/26/2015 11:08 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I also had a long discussion with some of the guys in charge of the
ADA project -- they really wanted the security that comes from
completely automatic storage management but they couldn't afford to
have their weapons systems stop for garbage
T.J. Duchene wrote:
ADA! I remember that! I've not used it in the better part of 20
years. Nicely designed language for its time - and very strict.
Having learned C in advance of ADA, I never liked its Pascal style
operators.
Too bad the only one who really uses it in the US is the
Le 26/07/2015 20:19, T.J. Duchene a écrit :
On 07/26/2015 11:08 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I also had a long discussion with some of the guys in charge of the
ADA project -- they really wanted the security that comes from
completely automatic storage management but they couldn't afford to
have
On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:58 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
Ada is not an acronym, it's after the first name of the first
person who wrote programs, the daughter of Byron, the english poet.
Yes, I know.
Ada is used in many places where human life is at stake: eg.
planes, missiles,
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 04:52:10PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
Le 25/07/2015 20:55, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
...
This really
violates the standing principle of paying for only what you use.
I encountered this principle long ago when I got involved in the
design and implementation of Algol 68 --
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