What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Dr.Ruud rvtol+news at isolution.nl
Fri Jun 23 20:58:02 EDT 2006


Marshall schreef:
> Rob Thorpe:

>> Can I make a type in C that can only have values between 1 and 10?
>> How about a variable that can only hold odd numbers, or, to make it
>> more difficult, say fibonacci numbers?
>
> Well, of course you can't in *C*; you can barely zip you pants with C.
> But I believe you can do the above in C++, can't you?

You can write self-modifying code in C, so I don't see how you can not
do that in C.
;)

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Affijn, Ruud

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