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From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com>
Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn
 C or Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/05
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Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote in article
<4u1g29$hc0@solutions.solon.com>...
> In article <320433CE.6D5A@online.no>, Alf P. Steinbach <alfps@online.no>
wrote:
> 
> A lot of programmers used to habitually use a null pointer as a shortcut
> for "" for string functions; you'd see
> 	if (strcmp(s, 0))
> used like
> 	if (strcmp(s, ""))
> because it worked on some machines.

This completely makes the point.  Someone who knows assembly language
would *never* make that mistake, because it would be so obviously
wrong.  You cannot program in assembly and not understand a null
pointer v.s. a pointer to a zeroed memory location.

-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com)