Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!rosevax!dicomed!dmh From: dmh@dicomed.UUCP (Dave Hollander) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: HARRIS FLAME Re: SHORT vs. INT Message-ID: <601@dicomed.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:33:07 EDT Article-I.D.: dicomed.601 Posted: Mon Sep 16 16:33:07 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:41:09 EDT References: <1390@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2778@sun.uucp> Reply-To: dmh@dicomed.UUCP (Dave Hollander) Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 26 In article <2778@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes: > >People who use the C language should be sufficiently expert that they >understand that "long" and "short" should not be selected in favor of "int" >only if they are of different sizes on the machine you're coding on. >Period. If a C programmer doesn't understand that, then they have not been ... > > Guy Harris Well excuse me! I was trained as a programer in collage ( in Pascal of course) and also by Bell Laboratories but these types of problems are beyond what they saw fit to teach. I will not try to defend the places that offer training, however they do seem to get bogged down by people who do not even understand structures. I have recently returned to the C world (a long and terrible bout of Fortran has ruined many of the good pratices I may of had) I was hoping that this news group would be a good refresher and get me up to date with new ideas. The concept of portability as a science not a black art being one of the ideas. sorry for being so foolish and "boneheaded"! I hope you have to fix one of my broken programs some day! Dave Hollander