Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!ludemann 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 Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.1214 Posted: Wed Aug 14 01:13:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 22:20:41 EDT References: <594@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: ludemann@ubc-cs.UUCP (Peter Ludemann) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 19 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). -- ludemann%ubc-vision@ubc-cs.uucp (ubc-cs!ludemann@ubc-vision.uucp) ludemann@cs.ubc.cdn ludemann@ubc-cs.csnet Peter_Ludemann@UBC.mailnet