The wonders of C

Norman Diamond ndiamond at watdaisy.UUCP
Wed Mar 27 05:11:38 AEST 1985


> P.S. I do, however, agree that it was ergonomically foolish to count
> relative uses of assignment vs. comparison to come up with =/== instead
> of :=/=. How many hours of debug time (and how many debug keystrokes)
> does it take, after all, to use up the marginal saving of some keystrokes in
> initial entry?
> --  David  sde at mitre-bedford

You forgot the fundamental philosophy of C.  There's no such thing as a
mistake; there's only a different and equally valid program.

-- 

   Norman Diamond

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