C & C++: whose newsreader incorrectly translated the subject line from RFC

• michael_wojcik / 200 / Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:41:00 GMT / Comments (0)
• [BTW, whose newsreader incorrectly translated the subject line from RFC 2047 encoding to whatever the above garbage is? Someone needs to get a better reader. (In the order that messages appeared at my server, it appears to be Malcolm's reader, but that may be an artifact of transmission.) If you try to reply to the original message in this thread, and your newsreader gives you a Subject header that doesn't start with "=?", your newsreader is broken.]
  
  In article "William L. Bahn"
  > writes:
  > One thing you are neglecting is that what is awkward at first becomes perfectly natural with practice. Or to put it another way, "intuitive" just means "familiar". A maintainer working with someone else's code has to adapt to the original programmer's style; English or any other language will not be a useful guide.
  
  > Wanting to keep the order because of "English order" is a pretty low priority. People that code on that basis are always doing things like: if( a == 's' || 'S' ) And indeed the language most often noted for its attempts to incorporate English syntax, COBOL, does support this:
  
  IF ws-item = value-x or value-y
  
  yet few C programmers are likely to hold that up as a paragon of programming language design virtue. (In fact, COBOL programmers were recently inveighing against it on comp.lang.cobol.)
  
  Programming languages are not natural languages, and trying to make the former agree with the latter is rarely to anyone's advantage.
  
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