Subject: RE: xslt core and intuition was RE: [xsl] Reference to variable c annot be resolved. From: "Roger Glover" <glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:22:56 -0600 |
Kienle, Steven C [IT/0200] [mailto:steven.c.kienle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > Actually, I'm not sure an intuitive language is good, or even possible. > Look at all spoken languages. In the programming world, using C as an > example, there are many things which can be intuitively understandable with > enough knowledge of the core, but end up causing more bugs than that > intuition is worth: for example > > if (i = j) > > as an assignment and non-zero value test. That really does make intuitive > sense if you understand the history of the language. Then it must take a *lot* of C language history understanding to make that statement intuitive. Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language, once said that this was the most common error that *he* makes when programming in C. -- Roger Glover glover_roger@xxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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