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Article #907Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming
From: Lars Peter Fischer
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:35
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:35
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Malak (malak@grebyn.com) Michael> 1) It has structured syntactic blocks for constants, types and Michael> variables. Which is not much of an advantage. Look at all the pain Knuth has gone through to work around it. Michael> 2) It has nested procedures. Sound like a neat idea but isn't a big deal in practice. Modules in much better. If you keep your modules (files in C) small, and keep functions local (static) you rarely need nested procedures. Note that Wirth is abandoning the idea, too. Michael> 3) Most importantly, the good structured programming professors Michael> wouldn't be caught dead teaching C (biggotry in my opinion). A professor that believes the notion of structured programming is tied to a specific language should be teaching gardening instead. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things. -- Calvin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!dkuug!aud.dk!vaxc.aud.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Newbie Wants Advice on C-Programming Message-ID: <FISCHER.92Dec30223532@orange.iesd.auc.dk> Date: 30 Dec 92 21:35:32 GMT References: <1992Dec23.220530.15347@netcom.com> <1992Dec24.172333.7339@grebyn.com> <1hdpluINN1lv@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Dec25.070024.15672@grebyn.com> Sender: news@vaxc.aud.auc.dk (USENET News System) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: malak@grebyn.com's message of 25 Dec 92 07: 00:24 GMT