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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!emr1!jagrant
- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: Re: New C Programmer Has
- Message-ID: <DLz29t.LEp@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <DLz0oJ.KJ6@rci.ripco.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:15:29 GMT
-
- In article <DLz0oJ.KJ6@rci.ripco.com> mambuhl@ripco.com (Martin Ambuhl) writes:
- >tsyslo@oasis.novia.net (Tony Syslo)
- >in <4ehpa3$6kl@nntp.novia.net> asks:
- >
- >> I have a question on C... why isn't this program working?!
- >
- >Because it isn't written in C.
- [...]
-
- You're quite correct. Upon closer examination, it does appear
- to be COBOL source code, not even closely resembling C.
-
- What elitist crap! Of course, it is C. It just happens to have
- a few errors in it.
-
- However, you did provide many good suggestions to fix the code
- to transform it from COBOL to 'C'. Well done.
- --
- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- Airborne Geophysics
- Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
-