Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: What makes a language "easy" to program in? Message-ID: <5156@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 22 Jun 88 16:11:15 GMT References: <3496@enea.se> <5158@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 9 In article <5158@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.UUCP (Tim Budd) writes: [ DWIM without warning ] I believe that more recent versions of [Name Deleted] have warnings. I also believe that yet more recent versions drop the capability alltogheter; I think this is too bad, as I've found the interactive "Gee, did you really mean this?" quite useful. ;-D on ( I wrecked my CAR, now I walk with a LISP ) Pardo