Writability

• Simplicity
• Too many features - misuse, disuse
• Orthogonality
• Good in moderation
• Bad in excess - Undetectable errors
• Concatenated relational expressions in C++ (4 > 3 > 2)
• Assignment as an expression in C++ (if (a = 2) ... )
• Support for Abstraction
• Process abstraction: Procedures
• Data abstraction: Array of records Vs Group of arrays
• Expressivity
• C++: Increment operator convenient instead of simple assignment expression
• Ada: and then, or else convenient for short-circuit evaluation
• Providing counter-controlled loop on top of logic-controlled pretest loop