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From: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Assignment in Conditionals
Message-ID: <1214@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:13:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 01:13:59 1985
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <594@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) writes:
>                                           ...  I used to
>think it would be nice if every statement returned a value,
>but as a result of the experience I have changed my mind.

A while back, I read a paper from the University of Toronto which
tested two otherwise "identical" languages - one was expression
oriented and one statement oriented.  Conclusion: the statement
oriented one was easier to learn and programming was faster in it.
The only problem was that the authors weren't sure how much of
this effect was caused by most other programming languages being
statement oriented (sorry, I don't have a reference for this -
it was a CSRG report from U of T).

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