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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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In article <1111718335.705081@athnrd02>, Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> writes:
> Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:

>> Little story: Yesterday, a colleague of mine didn't believe me that
>> realloc() would copy the memory contents if necessary until I showed
>> him the reference. And he is doing C for more than ten years now.
> 
> 
> Then he is definitely less than intermediate level in C. Besides that, 
> C90 is relatively small, and he should have learned it *all* by reading 
> K&R 2 in a matter of a few months, in a not-in-a-hurry mode.

Is "intermediate" intended to describe what portion someone knows
of all possible information about a language ?

Or is "intermediate" intended to describe where someone ranks in
language knowledge across all programmers who use that language ?

I am reminded of humorist Garrison Keillor describing a community
quite proud that all it's children are above average.