From: Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Help Me Please :)
Date: 2000/03/01
Date: 2000-03-01T06:14:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38BCB4C4.329F0420@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 89i8mm$vmd$1@nnrp1.deja.com
> Well if you are so narrow in your exposure to languages that
> you know only C, it will be *really* good experience to learn
Well, there he goes again... (g)... but you did post a very helpful
reply to the originator of this thread... so we will think nice thoughts
about you for a while...
My first language was fortran 4. back in 76. My first love was
pascal (I know you will have fun with that one); I have been doing
c for the last 5 years, although most of my time has been spent
debugging c/ada83 interfaces... You would think I would like
ada. I dont.
> another language. Any competent programmer should be able to
> acquire the *syntax* of another programming language almost
Although stated in an unkind way, I have to agree with you. But
I guess I am just getting old. I have spent to many hrs in the RM
and cohen's book the last two weeks for it to be laziness.
> Ironically, this particular point is one where Ada and C are
> identical, and if you used "x" instead of 'x' in C you would
Very ironic. I did not catch this... at first glance I thought
it would work okay... but i didn't pay enough attention...
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-29 0:00 Help Me Please :) Will Mann
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Al Johnston
2000-03-01 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Al Johnston
2000-03-02 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Al Johnston [this message]
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01 0:00 ` James Bean
2000-03-01 0:00 ` tmoran
[not found] <df481109.0106140310.5d923746@posting.google.com>
[not found] ` <9gb1uu$87u7o$1@ID-52877.news.dfncis.de>
2001-06-19 2:59 ` help me please! Ken Garlington
2001-06-16 10:20 ` C.D.Damron
2001-06-20 6:06 ` John Keeney
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2000-02-29 0:00 Help Me Please :) Will Mann
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
[not found] ` <2000Mar3.183321.69279@ludens>
2000-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-03 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-05 0:00 ` Steve Arnold
2000-03-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-18 0:00 ` James S. Rogers
2000-03-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-03-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-20 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-22 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-03-28 0:00 ` reason67
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` reason67
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Simon Pilgrim
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-10 0:00 ` r_c_chapman
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
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