Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by imoverclocked on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:21PM
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Clearly, you have never read the C spec.
Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by hutzlibu on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:41AM
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No I did not. But in the end, when it gets compiled, every word is clearly defined, or not?
Re:Programming languages are not languages (2018)
by grawprog on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:06AM
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>C11(ISO/IEC 9899:201x) §3.4.3
>1 undefined behavior
>behavior, upon use of a non portable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this International Standard imposes no requirements
>2 NOTE Possible undefined behavior ranges from ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results, to behaving during translation or program execution in a documented manner characteristic of the environment (with or without the issuance of a diagnostic message), to terminating a translation or execution (with the issuance of a diagnostic message).
>3 EXAMPLE An example of undefined behavior is the behavior on integer overflow.
It also is. Because in a programming language every vocable is clearly defined when used, or you get an error.
Words in natural languages are not really clearly defined. There is only a very small subset of words, people are not fighting over their definition.
Thats why it is an art, to write a understandable book. Or give a lecture, the audience can understand.
But you are right, languages are optimized for being spoken in 2 ways. With the possibilitie of clarification.