Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT Message-ID: <54@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 01:27:36 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.54 Posted: Wed Sep 18 01:27:36 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 04:05:36 EDT References: <1390@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2778@sun.uucp> <1297@teddy.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 15 > In article <2778@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes: > >If people were as careless at using, say, saws as they were at using the C > >programming language, the rate at which people lost fingers in their > >workshops would be a national disgrace. > > Actually, many people do use saws with the same care that many programmers > use C, and the resulting loss-of-digit statistics are, indeed, disgraceful. > The exact figures are, however, something I can't immediately put my finger on Ouch! In fact, the issue on the C side (i.e., from California) being integer sizes, I saw (!) that the analogy was rather close: a matter of loss of significant digits as opposed to a significant loss of digits. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.