From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,baaf5f793d03d420 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,97188312486d4578 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,6154de2e240de72a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: kaelbers@avian.dars.muohio.edu (Randy Kaelber) Subject: Re: What's the best language to start with? [was: Re: Should I learn C or Pascal?] Date: 1996/08/08 Message-ID: <4udf2h$vii@rose.muohio.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172962861 references: <31FBC584.4188@ivic.qc.ca> <01bb83f5$923391e0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <01bb8534$b2718bc0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <4ud81d$5ii@solutions.solon.com> followup-to: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada organization: Miami University newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote: > In article <01bb8534$b2718bc0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>, > Tim Behrendsen wrote: > In particular, in the real world, would you rather maintain code more like > the first or the second? I'd prefer to maintain the first; it would be > easier to change all occurances of 50000, if this needed to be done. I'd prefer the second, myself, but first, I'd put in: #define ARRAY_SIZE 50000 and replace all occurences of 50000 with it. Then, you only have to change the 50000 once. :) -- Randy Kaelber: kaelbers@muohio.edu DARS Programmer/Analyst, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 USA http://avian.dars.muohio.edu/~kaelbers/ Unsolicited commercial E-mail will be spell checked for a fee of $50. Sending such mail constitutes acceptance of these terms.