Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!lll-crg!well!l5!laura From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards Subject: There is widespread dissatisfaction with C programs Message-ID: <223@l5.uucp> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 18:29:21 EST Article-I.D.: l5.223 Posted: Sun Oct 27 18:29:21 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:30:53 EST Reply-To: laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.lang.c:6862 net.unix-wizards:15498 Hello gang. I got 97 messages the day before yesterday about the book I am writing. I got 84 yesterday. I have 57 so far today. They are nearly all from different people. Boy is there a lot of disatisfaction! The credit page is going to be full of names! Replying to this onslought is going to take time. I am not ignoring all of you, it is just that it takes me about half an hour to reply to an average message and I don't have that many hours. Thank you all for yoru time. For those of you who haven't written me yet but intend to: I have all the replies about PROGRAMMING STYLE that I can handle. I am going to advocate K&R style of braces, adn will follow the Indian Hill Style Sheet pretty closely. The Elements of Programming Style is a great book. This is not quite what I intend to write, however. If you think that a ``slightly unportable'' program that dereferences null pointers is like a ``slightly inefficeint'' program that should use registers better, then we are not working in the same arena of ideas. I think that giving people such a program is like giving them an automobile that is unsafe to drive on the freeway, and not telling them of the fact. If you have worked on a PR1ME, then you have well and truly suffered and my hat is off to you. -- Help beutify the world. I am writing a book called *How To Write Portable C Programs*. Send me anything that you would like to find in such a book when it appears in your bookstores. Get your name mentioned in the credits. Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura (that is ell-five, not fifteen) l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa