On Thu, 3 May 2001, Frank Wales wrote:
> Russel Winder wrote:
> > > hands up those who call themselves C programmers who don't understand
> > > this C program:
> > >
> > > main()
> > > {
> > > printf("Hello world.\n");
> > > }
> > >
> > > (Those with their hands in the air: you're fired.)
> >
> > I am not so sure you should be firing readers, you perhaps ought to be firing the
> > writer: the above is really awful code.
[snip]
> I think it's interesting that the responses have been of the form 'this is
> not a very good program' or 'this program has ambiguous or undefined
> behaviour' rather than 'no C programmer could understand this program'.
> I believe this means something. :-)
Actually, after having thought about it I do have a more complete rebuke.
However, it will take time to write it out, and there is still paid work
to do...
Doei, Arthur.
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