Re: one-liner for characater replacement

On May 21, 6:06 am, Jan Vorbrüggen <Jan.Vorbrueg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The absence of little things like testing for a <= x <= b naturally
has a cumulative effect on the objective desirability of using a
language.  

The presence of such little things has a cumulative effect...Note that
defining the correct semantics for these and similar "little things",
including all of their interactions with the rest of the language,

which language?

could testing for a <= x <= b have been added fairly easily to f77?

If the mass of complexity that has been added to f77 has made this
next to impossible, then that is regrettable.

has
been and still is a huge stumbling block for C et al. I doubt that there
are more than a handful of people world-wide who really know all of the
pitfalls this generates, and can write code (if they were to do such a
lowly thing) that avoids them.

For me, this amounts to saying that there is this wonderful dish made of
fish (called fugu, BTW), but there are only a few people who can prepare
it in such a way that you don't risk death through consumption. Thanks
but no thanks - any normal restaurant with, say, two Michelin stars will
do fine for me.

        Jan

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