From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Help Me Please :)
Date: 2000/03/01
Date: 2000-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89i8m2$vm9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38BC7A6E.EC5DE68B@mindspring.com
In article <38BC7A6E.EC5DE68B@mindspring.com>,
Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I think it should be
> 'A'..'Z'
> then again, I said I was new to this stuff... I want my c
> back!
Well if you are so narrow in your exposure to languages that
you know only C, it will be *really* good experience to learn
another language. Any competent programmer should be able to
acquire the *syntax* of another programming language almost
immediately.
Ironically, this particular point is one where Ada and C are
identical, and if you used "x" instead of 'x' in C you would
get equally mysterious (actually probably more mysterious
messages, something like:
warning: comparison between pointer and integer
(at least that's what gcc gives for the equivalent C mistake:
if ("a" <= q && q <= "z") ...
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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 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-01 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 ` 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 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
2000-03-28 0:00 ` reason67
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-03-29 0:00 ` reason67
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Simon Pilgrim
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-10 0:00 ` r_c_chapman
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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