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Subject: Re: C is not a low level language
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:25:54 +0000
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In message <0001HW.22283DFA0635D11A70000F02C2EF@news.individual.net>, 
Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>On 25 Feb 2019, Björn Lundin wrote
>(in article <q51gu2$1o6$1@dont-email.me>):
>
>> Den 2019-02-25 kl. 18:55, skrev Bart:
>> > On 24/02/2019 17:56, Bill Findlay wrote:
[]
>> > > There is language in which you can write:
>> > >
>> > > copy : String := source;
[]
>> > That depends on exactly what your line does. (Which actually is not that
>> > clear: is String the name of a type or of a variable?
[]
>> It pretty obvious.
[]
I'm sorry, but the above is why this sort of discussion never ends. When 
someone is intimately familiar with the syntax of a language, the 
meaning/functioning of a line like the above - or, say, in C, something 
like *a++=b(&c--) - _is_ obvious; to anyone else, it is far from so. And 
the person to whom it _is_ second nature sees no point in explaining it 
with a comment, either: (a) it just _does_ seem so obvious to them, (b) 
they'd actually find it difficult _to_ explain, in much the same way as 
describing the mechanics of walking isn't easy, even though most of us 
can do it. (Forgetting it took us some _years_ to learn!)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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