RE: C Language

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. RE: C Language (michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>Argh...I'm not sure. It (possibly, maybe) could be application design,
>so I'm whacking on the program, and just get frustrated with char and
>const char and arrays and memcpy and strcpy and all I want to do is put
>the contents of one variable into another. I work with C, VB and RPG
>here, and sometimes I just want to have my own language that does what
>I want it to.
>
>Basically I'm a whiner...

(With apologies to Antonio because I'll likely be out of sequence since I'm 
replying to the Digest...)

I recall a sentiment that went something like:

"Any language where
   if ( x=y ) ...
 does not mean 'if x is equal to y', does not deserve to be called
 a programming language."

I think the sentiment came to me from Paul Conte, though his original wording 
might have been far different.

Tom Liotta

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