What's a C expert?
Paul Canniff 2/1011
paulc at microsoft.UUCP
Sat Jul 22 16:08:53 AEST 1989
In article <12214 at well.UUCP> tmh at well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) writes:
>After a few lengthy arguments nobody could satisfactorly answer
>this question:
>
> What do you need to know to be an expert C programmer?
>
>Any takers?
>
>
>Todd
The obvious smug answer ... if you have to ask, you aren't.
Sorry, couldn't resist. And I can't think of a really good, serious
answer. I mean, how do you rate an expert? I consider myself
pretty good, but sometimes I still check the operator-precedence
charts.
How about ... understands why a[i] equals i[a] and CAN EXPLAIN IT,
knows what a trigraph is, and can tell why the following code
prints "false" (on 8-bit char systems).
char x = 0xff;
if (x != 0xff)
printf("FALSE\n");
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