Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more questions about efficient C code Message-ID: <5798@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:40:46 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5798 Posted: Wed Jul 17 16:40:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:40:46 EDT References: <11554@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <214@yetti.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 18 Keywords: programming, C, readability > ... 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry