On Friday 15 December 2006 14:53, Carlos Nieves Ónega wrote: > I learnt it in the first programming classes a lot of years > ago. I should blame my professors for teaching something not > standard...
I taught intro to programming a bunch of years ago. Finding a good book, that is both readable by real beginners and also correct is was a big challenge. It is amazing how many were just plain wrong on key details, or how many catered to one particular implementation, and cover its errors as standard. One quick check: main should return int. Anything else is wrong. The majority of these books said main returns void. This is wrong. What is correct here is clearly stated in the language standard document. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant. So, yes you should blame your professors, but don't be too nasty. We all make mistakes. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
