Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/18/10:47:59
In article <34961e0e DOT 807287 AT news DOT xs4all DOT nl>,
Hans 'the Beez' Bezemer <hansoft AT visitweb DOT com> wrote:
>"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:
>
>>My point is that it's best to teach a beginning C programmer standard C
>>right out of the book. Teach him the fundamentals and be sure he has
>>them right, then let him progress to the more complex stuff. I am very
>>wary of anything that promises to be a "shortcut."
>In the real world, you sometimes just don't have the time. EasyC hangs on
>Pascal, but I know of companies that use a FORTRAN kind of interface.
You mentioned that you first saw this idea in a Byte article in 1986,
but you didn't like the way it was done so you rolled your own.
Now you say you know companies that use yet another variant.
A month ago or so somebody proposed a set of #defines to turn C
into (broken) Basic, and a thread on French C recently died (I hope).
I see a pattern here. Do you?
Ulric
--
"You say to-mah-to, I say to-mah-to, and he says to-mah-to,
but ISO disagrees with all three of us and says to-mah-to."
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