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- From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Can you program in C?
- Message-ID: <16008@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 07:10:29 GMT
- References: <00963BF4.675CEA80@vms.csd.mu.edu>
- Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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- In article <00963BF4.675CEA80@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 2644danticoj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
- > My name is Cetera and I am new to this network.
-
- Clearly. It is considered bad manners to ask other people to solve your
- homework problems. Have you read news.announce.newusers?
-
- > However, all homework is programmed in C and because of an adminstrative
- > loop-hole, I was enrolled in the class with no knowledge of the needed
- > programming language.
-
- I have been on the other end of this problem. Your administration deserve
- a rebuke for the loophole, and you deserve a rebuke for exploiting it. Few
- lecturers add prerequisites to the course just for the heck of it.
-
- > So, can you help me write these programs, thereby
- > allowing me to graduate and go on to serve my country as an officer on a
- > nuclear submarine?
-
- I come from a country which was illegally expelled from ANZUS because we
- didn't want those things around. I studied in a country, which, although
- an ally of the dominant ANZUS partner, was nervously aware that some of
- said colossus's missiles were aimed our way.
-
- And you want we should _help_ someone cheat onto a nuclear sub? _My_
- future may depend on your country's having honest officers.
-
- Look in a textbook. Try Sedgewick's "Algorithm's in C." There are many
- others. While you're at it, buy a book on C and study it. "A Book on C"
- seems to be pretty good.
-