Re: Embedded systems programmers worldwide earn failing grades in C

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

"Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com> writes:
> alexandru.chircu@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> http://www.edadesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222300710
>> 
>> I leave the witty remarks to the more regular posters here :).
>
> I just took it, and scored 7/10, with the caveat that
>
> 2 of my failures were partial (I chose one were several were valid), so I 
> didn't chose wrong code.
>
> The other is that I rejected a solution that all compilers accepted, so I 
> would never write it.
>
> All in all, I have not chosen a single unsafe answer :P

Are you sure about that?  I took the test myself, and as far as I
could tell there was exactly one correct answer for each question,
though some of the incorrect answers were incorrect for fairly subtle
reasons.

> I'm not here to be presumptuous, and I don't write serious C since my 
> college years. Thus, this surely must mean that Ada has made me a super-safe 
> programmer ;)

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