On Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 20:01:10 +1100, O Plameras wrote: >Sam Couter wrote: > >>O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>The reality of it all is anyone can learn C in one day and master it in >>>one week. >>>By this I mean, after one week anyone will be able to read anyone's C code >>>provided it is written correctly. >>> >>> >> >>You can't just make stuff up and pretend it's true! That's not how the >>world works. >> >> > >I learned C in two days. But this was at BellLabs, Dayton, Ohio in 1989, >from the people >who invented C.
Yeah, and I learnt it in 3 hours when I was 13, but the thing is Oscar, not everyone is as brilliant as you and me. Lets face it half the people out there are below average, well strictly that isn't true, but if you can misplace a parentheses, I'm allowed to misuse statistics, anyway, where was I oh yeah, half of the world is just not that bright, I well, it takes them more than a few days to learn C. In fact I've seen people who in theory are in the top 25% of the age-group based on dubious testing, and most of them struggle to come to terms with pointers. And since you are deferring to K&R, I'll defer to the oracle, joel spolsky, from joel on Software fame. He says that most people don't even have the part of the brain required to use pointers! (Disclaimer: I don't think he actually meant that literally, and despite thorough neurological examanations, researchs are still unable to find this mythical pointer part of the brain.) Anyway, people should learn C, but that doesn't mean they should use. Its kind like math, you should learn how to long multiplication, but in the end its much more productive and less error-prone to just use a calculator. >Again, newbies out there don't be intimidated with C. If you aspire to >be the best of the best >learn C. Five days of C language learning is a small change when >compared to what will >be in store for you once you have this tool. C language is the mother of >many other languages. I'm glad Oscar finally agrees with me! Learning C is one of the most important things to do if you want to be a programmer. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
