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From: tgg@hplb.hpl.hp.com ()
Subject: Re: C++ vs Smalltalk?
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traymond@pcix.com wrote:

|That is only because you have been trained that way.  The real
|issue is no precedence better than precedence with problems.
|If it were not for the fact that almost everyone is trained in
|high school to see multiplication and division with a higher
|precedence than addition and subtraction then I would say
|that no precedence is clearly a better way to go.  

Ah! If only that was true! I find a majority of people think
	1 +  2 * 3 = 9 
Unfortunately that includes a _majority_ of infant and primary school teachers
(i.e. ages 5-10)

I never did decide whether I liked APL's evaluation order in which 
	7 - 7 - 7 - 7 - 7 = 7
(I think that's right; I read a few a few APL programs, but never wrote one)

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