Re: Programming Languages, "to C or not to C, that is the Q."

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

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Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
> But with a limited toolkit one must sometimes bend over backwards and in 
> the process create opaque code.  So ultimately, a rich toolkit can lead 
> to more elegant code though it is opaque to the novice.

    Quite the contrary in my experience.  I never say a need for 4 different 
ways to express an if and found it quite problematic when reading code.  By 
the same token 2 looping structures is far more elegant than 6, 4 of which are 
so rarely used that one often has to stop and pause and think about what one 
is looking at to understand it.

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