From: ulric AT edu DOT stockholm DOT se
Subject: Re: Scripting language library
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:02:26 -0600
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In article <3495ac96 DOT 1274644 AT news DOT xs4all DOT nl>,
  hansoft AT visitweb DOT com wrote:
>
> ulric AT evelin DOT edu DOT stockholm DOT se (Ulric Eriksson) wrote:
>
> >In my case, all you accomplished was to make me suspicious. I'm sure
> >that's not what you had intended.
> Oh no, certainly not. But never judge a book by its cover. First impressions
> are usually wrong due to a lack of information (contrary to popular belief).
> And RTFM.

Oh, I have read TFM, trust me, and if I ever decide to use your program I
will no doubt look at it even more. But the issue at hand is whether the
code is standard C or not, something which is hard to decide just by
looking at the documentation.

> Yeah, that's the trouble with these issues. If you do it one way, one stands
up
> and cheers and another sits down and gets grumpy. Note that you don't have to
> use EasyC to maintain it. You can intermix both. Not too neat, I agree, but
> there is no real technical problem there. And once compiled to a library you
> don't have to look at the source code ever again.

You can ignore the ones who get grumpy if you write your C program in C,
because they are wrong anyway.

Among the first things I did to SIOD was to run it through indent,
destroying any ability to make diffs against the original source. So when
I upgraded to a new version of SIOD, I had to patch my changes in by
hand.

The hint is that I would prefer that you apply sed to the sources than
doing it myself.

> Let me put it this way: 4tH has a small, but dedicated following. If they want
> me to use the usual syntax, I'll follow because the customer is always right.
> As a matter of fact, you're the first one that complains.

Then you are in luck, because I don't intend to harp on about it any more.

Ulric

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