Off topic C question

[phil hunt]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:59:58 +0200, Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> wrote:
>phil hunt wrote:
>
>> I disagree. K&R has a mixture of clarity and concision that makes
>> it a delight to read.
>> 
>> IMO, anyone for whom K&R isn't to their taste, probably won't make a
>> very good programmer anyway.
>
>The last thing which I am  bothered with: whether to become a good
>programmer or not. For example, I did never use a struct in C; that
>means my C code is more or less a big spaghetti one. I do not care as
>long as I get the correct result.

But writing bad code means more bugs, so you are less likely to get 
the correct result. And as your badly-written program gets bigger, 
it gets more and more bug-ridden and hard to understand.

>And I have really, really not the intention to waste my life as a
>professional programmer

That's a fair enough attitude if all you are going to do is write 
the odd 200-line script.

If you are writing larger programs, it rapidly becomes 
self-defeating.


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