The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton nospam.newton at gmx.li
Sat May 20 06:56:03 EDT 2000


On Thu, 18 May 2000 20:33:10 GMT, Garry Hodgson <garry at sage.att.com>
wrote:

>main()
>{
>	...80000 lines of code omitted...
>}
>
>(and yes, i've seen programs like that.)

How K&R! Nowadays, of course, with modern software design techniques,
this would get re-written into:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    ...80000 lines of code omitted...
    return 0;
}

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nospam.newton at gmx.li>
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.



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