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From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
Subject: Re: What's the best language to learn? [was Re: Should I learn C or
 Pascal?]
Date: 1996/08/21
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In article <01bb8f12$6dbb5f00$32ee6fce@timhome2>
"Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com> writes:
<snip>
B: > : 	while (buf[0]==' ')
B: > : 	{
B: > : 	  for (p=buf;p[0]=p[1];p++)
B: > : 	    ;
B: > : 	}
B: > 
B: > : 	while (buf[strlen(buf)-1]==' ')
B: > : 	  buf[strlen(buf)-1]=0
<snip>
B: You're missing the point.  The point is how can *anyone* commit such
B: a monument to inefficient coding?  Yet, someone did.  That someone
B: obviously sees four lines of code, and therefore it must be OK.
B: Now, if that someone had an assembly background, and could see how
B: these statements were going to compile, they would instantly feel
B: the horror that a good and moral programmer should feel over this
B: code.

I think it is not much `longer' in assembly than in C. (I mean the
ratio of the length of assembly code to C is probably the same as any
other piece of code). The double loop is as easy to write in assembly
as in C: and a call to strlen is equally easy.

Lack of ability or willingness to think cannot be corrected by
changing languages.

Cheers
Tanmoy

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