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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: TeX and Pascal [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
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On 01/10/2024 23:39, Peter Flass wrote:
> That’s one of the things I dislike about C. It can obfuscate a simple
> operation like that. Maybe in the days to 10CPS TTYs terseness had it’s
> usefulness, but it’s been long since time when it’s been better to write a
> bit more in the interest of readability.

I agree, but having worked on 10CPS TTYS, one appreciates 'ls' instead 
of listFiles

Now as far as I am concerned using a ? operator is to me no harder to 
understand than the word obfuscate. Its in the region of languages I 
know  well.

But there are some C syntaxes possible that are very hard for anyone 
except the compiler to follow.

I never managed to successfully declare an array of pointers to 
functions returning an integer.

But that might have been the primitive compilers.


-- 
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted 
man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest 
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly 
persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid 
before him."

    - Leo Tolstoy