how has C bitten you?
Barry Shein
root at bu-cs.UUCP
Sat Aug 24 16:58:57 AEST 1985
Not really a bite, but I remember when I was first learning C
I was quite bewildered by the fact that you couldn't really
declare your own 'argv', that is, you couldn't declare an
array of pointers to fixed length buffers except perhaps by:
char *myargv[] = {
"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0",
"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0",
etc
I mean, argv seemed kinda holy to me, disturbing.
-Barry Shein, Boston University
P.S. I know argv is var length, but that would be even harder to declare!
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