On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 17:18 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Trivial to whom? Us yes. To a non programmer, you might as well be > writing Chinese. I suspect the non-programmer element at the talks will be fairly small, but I was being a bit blase :) What I was trying to suggest is that any problem that is easy to solve in C will not provide a good example of how to solve the problem in any of the higher-level languages. The Ruby example, for instance, is much the same as the C, albeit on one line ;)
> Even to a non-C programmer, the snippet is quite enough > to get a first impression of C (and probably put them off ever learning it!) True, but writing the equivalent of "sed s/foo/bar/g" in C would do an even better job of putting them off C! (There's an ideaâ) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
