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- From: felinoid@ccnet.com (Jeffery C McLean)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: C or C++ for a 14-year old?
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 20:06:18 -0800
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- David R. Conrad (ab411@detroit.freenet.org) wrote:
-
- : In a previous article, amoreira@nine.com (Alberto C Moreira) says:
- : > [ someone said not to learn C under DOS ]
- : >Still, there's no worse restriction on a programmer than not to be
- : >able to talk directly to the hardware.
-
- : I don't know about that.
-
- : >The best operating system isn't the one that does more, but the one
- : >
- : >With Unix, I probably need to recompile the kernel - that is, if I'm a
- : >hacker and I have the Unix source code.
-
- : Well, since it sounds like you already are a hacker, and since any
- : decent unix system -- like linux or freebsd -- comes with kernel source,
- : I guess this isn't a problem, eh?
-
- However with Unix it is alwase posable to write non-portable code
- by making some Asmbly laguage routines.
- Writing in asmbly is discuraged on Unix becouse that will
- mean that the resulting program will work only on that computer.
- How ever I will from time to time add a small somthing to
- my code so that IF someone trys to use it on there computer with
- out my permit (ie steal sorce I am NOT finished with and port it)
- It (unless they catch what I did) won't run or may not even compile.
- A small part of non-portable code or making use of somthing
- extreamly obscure. I'll even read modem rom versons JUST to make it
- unuseable by anyone else.
- So far no one has chalanged that.... I'm glad.... Becouse
- a BBS I wrote was stolen... and the code was VERY portable...
- (But the sorce was being converted to Apple by a friend and THAT
- was where it was stolen... with his computer... and not from me
- directly. So it wouldn't have made a hole lot of diffrence... I'd
- have replaced the non-portable code with porable code if I was doing
- that sort of thing at the time)
-
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