Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Assignment in Conditionals Message-ID: <499@baylor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 12:12:55 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.499 Posted: Wed Aug 21 12:12:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:36:37 EDT References: <594@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1214@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 21 > 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). I think I saw that. It was in CACM or some similar journal... just ran through my back copies but didn't find it, so either it's not a straight article, it has a funny title, or I lent it to someone. That wasn't the only flaw. The other problem was that the two languages *weren't* otherwise identical, because if they were the statement oriented one would have been a subset of the expression oriented one. -- Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076