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- From: malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak)
- Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.050133.11408@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec24.230420.4243@sequent.com> <1992Dec25.073517.16089@grebyn.com> <1992Dec27.031740.27262@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:01:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.031740.27262@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
- >In article <1992Dec25.073517.16089@grebyn.com>, malak@grebyn.com (Michael Malak) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec25.050515.20871@ncsu.edu> bank@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Belgarath the Sorcerer) writes:
- >
- >> >4) Even if you're not going into OOP, do NOT take up Pascal as
- >> > a road to C. ...
- >
- >> Oh? Have you ever seen C code written by a former FORTRAN programmer?
- >> If so, by how many? Universally you will find:
- >> 1) Very short, illegible variable and function names, with the
- >> first character wasted (all integers must start with 'i', don't
- >> you know)
- >> 2) No use of structures
- >> 3) No linked lists or trees
- >> 4) No whitespace
- >> 5) Lots of illegible "creative" formulas
- >> 6) No comments
- >
- >As one who learned FORTRAN first, I consider this a slur; were it applied
- >to me directly it would be a libel. The word `Universally' is used in
- >error.
-
- My error, and it is genuine, is that I omitted "self-taught"; i.e., I
- was referring to those FORTRAN programmers who taught themselves C in a
- vacuum.
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