Re: lcc first experience

In article <NaudnV1Z-fLCQr7VnZ2dnUVZ8uOdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Richard Heathfield  <rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>We also have innocent experts to be defended. Walter Roberson is an
expert 
>C programmer who contributes his expertise freely to this group.

Thanks for the kind words, but regretfully they aren't quite accurate.

There was a time when I was quite involved in ensuring that my
programs were as ****table as practical, C89 base and POSIX.1-1990
used without shame if I was doing something we expected to ****t only
to Unix. I was an expert in that aspect, back then, and used to be
able to quote relevant parts of C89 more or less from memory -- but
I wasn't an expert in the more obscure nooks and crannies of C.

Then my job headed into directions that made tools such as perl
a more natural fit for my programming -- e.g., collection and
correlation of SNMP data from switches and routers and firewalls.
After a time, I realized that my C was getting rather rusty, and I
started hanging around here to keep my C skills in practice. I have
learned quite a bit about C by doing so, but my job does not involve
much C programming.

Eventually my job morphed again and I'm back to software development;
for a while maple was the best tool for my work. These days most
of my programming is in Matlab, which is suitable for project I am
working on. Matlab has a very large standard library and optional
toolboxes, and is used in an amazing variety of ways -- it is too big
for most people (including myself) to know *all* of. It is hard to
be a Matlab "expert" without a hefty science and engineering background.
But I do what I can to contribute to the Matlab community;
comp.soft-sys.matlab is where most of my postings are these days.
-- 
  "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this
  ecstasy, is success in life."               -- Walter Pater