[TUHS] What would early alternatives to C have been?

[Steve Nickolas]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, Larry McVoy wrote:

>> Anyway, I frankly prefer to see explicit parens, so the precedence
>> is clear ??? it's easier to read and less error-prone for the maintainer.
>
> This, a thousand times, this.  I taught my guys "think of coding as write
> once, read many.  I could care less how much more work it is, write code
> such that it is the easiest to understand".
>

I assume compiler braindeath and always code around it.  An extra pair of 
parentheses never hurt.

-uso.