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- From: ghull@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Gregory Hull)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: More on E
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 17:16:01 GMT
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : Anyone learning E (or any other language for that matter) will have to
- : learn enough C anyway in order to learn how to use the OS, to use
- : examples from books, read PD code, etc.
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- : And if you're reading someone's C code, whoever you are and hoever much
- : experience in C you've had, you're bound to get confused between
- : differences (such as expression parsing) between C and E. Some of these
- : may be subtle enough not to be noticed immediately resulting in obscure
- : and dificult to track down bugs.
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- : Unless you intend to rewrite the entire RKM's from an E perspective, you
- : must admit that this will cause people some problems :-)
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- An E translation of all of the RKM example source code is available on
- AmiNet. I don't know anything about E yet except how to invoke the compiler
- and all of the sources compiled with no problems.
-
- Greg Hull
- Northeastern University College of Computer Science
- Lotus Corp
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