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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  more questions about efficient C code
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:40:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 16:40:46 1985
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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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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