more questions about efficient C code
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Thu Jul 18 06:40:46 AEST 1985
> ... I could safely
> say that there is *no* one-to-one correspondance between
> so-called professionals and the awareness of the science of
> programming. You could say that I have encountered more
> trash written (in macro, fortran, basic, C, pascal) by
> professionals (?) than otherwise...
>
> ... It seems the highschool students (Who perhaps
> started out with basic) write just as good C code as
> "professionals", as Lincoln-Sudbury stuff in one of the usenix
> tapes prove. By the way, what does "professional" mean ??
> Someone making a living thru programming ??? ...
Professionalism is defined by behavior, not credentials. As your
examples amply demonstrate.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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