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- From: alanm@cognos.com (Alan Myrvold)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.misc
- Subject: Re: A challenge to the anti-goto (C code included!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.151917.619@cognos.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:19:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cognos.1992Nov6.151917.619
- References: <BwxsF6.3DF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov3.053951.7786@cognos.com> <1992Nov5.203759.8030@linus.mitre.org>
- Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
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- In article <1992Nov5.203759.8030@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >I would suggest Mr. Myrvold, that you attend to your business and let
- >Dr. Rubin attend to his.
-
- You're probably right.
-
- >There are times when readability, portability, and ease of maintenance are
- >of primary importance. There are times when they don't matter at all.
-
- The code fragment posted could not be compiled, so what other purpose did
- it have besides being read?
- Posting code to comp.lang.misc is an invitation for it to be READ!
- It is a time when comments and whitespace are appropriate.
-
- In some article long since expired from our system :
- %% Lawrence Crowl wrote:
- %% It's time for you to put up some work. Write up a C (or Fortran, or some
- %% ...
- % And Herman Rubin responded
- % I might be able to get a graduate student to do this on a versatile semi-
- % portable "package" which I already have, not not programmed.
-
- By refusing to learn the artistry of programming, Herman is spouting
- criticism from a position of ignorance.
-
- So I understand now. Herman is not a programmer, will never be one,
- and his algorithms will probably never get out of the ivory towers, or
- if they do, they will be so unportable that they will not be able to
- take advantage of new hardware performance increases, or be used by
- people with hardware incompatible to his.
-