C's syntax

[Grant Griffin]

bowman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:17:24 +0200, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> !
> !I fully agree with Koenig (a great programmer, and a great expert
> !in C, and later C++, by the way) that "Even C experts come across
> !problems that require days of debugging to fix" (from the preface
> !of his book, cfr the URL
> 
> Kernighan and Pike's book 'The Art of Programming' also mentions a variety of
> annoying little mistakes they've made. I think it is safe to say they are not
> C neophytes.
> 
> I look at coding like skiing: if I don't fall on my face occasionally, I'm not
> learning anything.

I look at skiing like coding: the main idea is to go downhill as fast as
you can without loosing control.  Oh, and if you ever run smack dead
into a tree, it wasn't worth it.

lesson-or-no-lesson-<wink>-ly y'rs

=g2
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