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jacob navia
There are some people here (let's call them "regulars" for short)
that are always giving lessons to people about how easy is to
write portable code, etc. They always point fingers at you telling you
how bad you write code.
One of them (I would say the prototype of them) is Heathfield.
Here is an exchange that happened just a few hours ago, that
demonstrates my point:
WRITING CODE IS HARD. And regulars aren't better at it than everybody
else...
Ed Jensen wrote
Then, Heathfield answered:
[code snipped]
Harald van Dijk answered:
And Heathfield had to acknowledge...
that are always giving lessons to people about how easy is to
write portable code, etc. They always point fingers at you telling you
how bad you write code.
One of them (I would say the prototype of them) is Heathfield.
Here is an exchange that happened just a few hours ago, that
demonstrates my point:
WRITING CODE IS HARD. And regulars aren't better at it than everybody
else...
Ed Jensen wrote
> There are very few regulars here in comp.lang.c that'll admit that
> writing 100% portable C code is non-trivial.
Then, Heathfield answered:
> I'm one of them, however.
> I think it's easy to write *very* portable code, but difficult to write
> 100% portable code. Consider, for example, this simple program:
[code snipped]
Harald van Dijk answered:
And Heathfield had to acknowledge...