C's syntax

[bowman]

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.