Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Uses of "short" ? Message-ID: <754@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 18:17:52 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.754 Posted: Fri Nov 1 18:17:52 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Nov-85 03:21:38 EST References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <2600017@ccvaxa> <2883@sun.uucp> <48@hadron.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 15 [Not food] In article <48@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes: >The trouble is, by not >developing good (read innocuous but portable) habits in throwaway code, >if you suddenly decide that you are an Implementor of Portable Code, >you will have a lot of trouble get used to the "new" way of writing >code. The trouble is, you don't know what pieces of code aren't going to be thrown away. You may suddenly find that you *were* an Implementor of [Not Very] Portable Code. Better to do it right the first time. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108