Re: lcc first experience

On May 8, 11:28 am, rober...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Walter Roberson)
wrote:
> In article <fvve2b$i0...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, jacob navia  <ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> >Walter Roberson wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> I must therefore disagree with the claim that,
> >>> all statements have side-
> >>> effects.
> >You know perfectly well what the intent of the sentence was,
>
> No, I do *not* understand the intent of that ****tion of the sentance
> at all. [...]

Oh for crying out loud.  Yes, you got me!  I made a boo-boo!  I should
have said that many statements, or the statements in question have
side-effects.  I mean you guys rag on Jacob all the time, but you just
so perfectly illustrate his point with this inane over the top
pedantry.

I mean you don't give a crap at all about the point I was making or
what one I was responding to, but you go over the top with some
ridiculously lengthy response about some irrelevant detail when you
just as easily could have pointed out that casting an expression to
void removes its side effect (issue resolved in less than a
sentence).  I accept corrections, not sermons.

> [...]  When Paul Heish [...]

Oh, for a second there I thought you were talking about me.  I should
probably go on a long rant about how to spell my name properly.  And I
still haven't found the word "sentance" in my dictionary, but I'm sure
its there somewhere.

> [...] Paul has a recognized expertise in some aspects of C, [...]

It would probably be more correct to say that I am an expert
*programmer*.  I know C well enough to know what it *MUST* do, as
opposed to what the standard says that it *does* do.  If you think
about it, that explains why I get into a lot of arguments with the C
standard = Bible people here.

> and it would be unfortunate if some people therefore took his claim at
> face value without whatever context Paul might supply that would make
> claim correct in a certain light.

Sure, and its worth a correction.  So did you have any comments about
source code clarity, useful strategies for warning removal,
intentional operation explicitness, or the value of horizontal code
size?  How about just the lcc-win32 compiler?

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Paul Hsieh
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