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There is nothing more annoying that when you are learning to program, and you get some error due to the examples. You check everything, recheck names, and it s
by megablast 17y ago
There is nothing more annoying that when you are learning to program, and you get some error due to the examples.
You check everything, recheck names, and it still crashes.
You try to find out if you are using the compiler right, if you have the correct version, still crashes.
So you try to type it in another editor, maybe the editor is adding CRLF from dos, and the compiler is expecting Unix EOL, nope, still crashing.
Maybe there is a problem with the machine, so try a different machine, nope, still crashing.
It is enough to turn anyone off of computer science. When you are first starting out, there are so many things that already can go wrong, and so much to learn. This is just bad!
- heresy 17y agoI get the sense Herb hasn't moved with the times, and is pretty much stuck in the ways that served him before the internet, hence the lack of improvement. How bad do you have to be to not continuously improve what you did before? Also, his examples to me scream that he hasn't or doesn't really write code for a living, or if he does, it's with a community of other fossils like him. I can't respect any programming book writer who doesn't have some kind of automation in place to ensure all his code samples (1) compile, and (2) work as expected. Basic stuff nowadays. And even me, with not very much C cred, can see his C code is clearly not idiomatic for C these days, if you compare it to some well-written OSS C.