Re: inline out-of-line

From: Mark C. Stock <mcstockX_at_Xenquery>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:21:55 -0500
Message-ID: <j4-dnUt0GddFbq7dRVn-iQ@comcast.com>

"Ed prochak" <ed.prochak_at_magicinterface.com> wrote in message news:4b5394b2.0402181457.3f686ad6_at_posting.google.com...
| Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:<1077050003.211294_at_yasure>...
| > Vu Pham wrote:
| []
| > >
| > >
| > > Thanks for the advice. I have the feeling that you are also a serious
C
| > > developer :-)
| > >
| > > Vu
| >
| > Actually my C starts and stops with Hello World. Took one course.
| > Hated it. I think it is the dumbest language ever devised. Now Pascal
| > ... that's a decent language. If Borland had chosen C and Microsoft
| > Pascal we'd likely all be happier. No my background was Fortran and
| > Cobol.

| Given your temperment Daniel, I'm not surprised.
| SQL and PASCAL are high level programming languages.
| C is a high level assembler. I don't see you as an assembler programmer.

| and yes, you got to love BORLAND PASCAL.
|
| Ed

don't get to use C as much these days as when i spent my july 4 weekend reading the unix manuals ~20 years ago, but having a solid C and assembler back-ground has proven invaluable in psycho-analyzing 'higher level' languages when they go wacko, and has also helped in writing lean (but not necessarily fanatically lean) code

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