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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Schildt <- Advanced Books
- Date: 16 Apr 96 18:18:13 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <8BEB557.02C7003127.uuout@sourcebbs.com> david.mohorn@sourcebbs.com (DAVID MOHORN) writes:
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- >This message was from DAVID MOHORN to ALL
- >and was forwarded to you by DAVID MOHORN
- > ----------------------------------------
- >M>: Oh, C'mon guy! Aren't you being a bit tough on Schildt?
- >
- >M>The rather tedious nonsense about the void main() declaration is being
- > >blown out of all proportion. First of all, Schildt uses
- >
- >M> main() {
- >M> }
- >
- >M>as the declaration in 99.99% of all books I've seen. The other 1% has
- > >arguements. He must have used void main() in the Annotated Standard
- > >since people discuss it so much. If so (I haven't read the book),
- > >it is very unusual for him.
- >
- >The only book that I know of that uses the notorious void main(void) is
- >his "Teach Yourself C" book. But he only uses this for the first half
- >of the book. This is only because he doesn't want the reader to be
- >overwhelmed with all the data types and other things until he has a
- >chance to explain how functions return values and pass arguments.
- >
- >I haven't read the "Annotated Standard" book either.
-
- Loads of crap snipped.
-
- Please refrain from posting the same crap every couple of months, over
- and over again. There is enough traffic in this newsgroup even without
- your periodic bullshit.
-
- Dan
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- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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