Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!adm!Peter Steele - Acadia\@ From: Peter@adm.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: C questions Message-ID: <2335@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 12:11:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.2335 Posted: Wed Jan 14 12:11:24 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 23:37:59 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 32 I am currently finishing up a new text book on C with a colleague of mine and we just received the last of several technical reviews. This particular reviewer makes some statements that we find hard to accept. However, we're just two people, so we decided to get some opinions from other C programmers. Below is a list of some his statements. Is this guy for real? Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Incidentally, the text is not an intro text, it assumes the reader has finished a course in Pascal. "... 95% of all C programmers couldn't give you a good explanation of the term lvalue..." "... Switch/case could be classified as rarely used and should be kept till later. "... very few C programmers know much about sizeof..." "... 99% of all professional C programmers have no idea what typedef is all about, couldn't care less and probably won't ever need it." "... 99% of all professional C programmers have no idea what the comma operator is all about, couldn't care less and probably won't ever need it." "... Leave the comma operator altogether. An intro book is no place for obscure and unmaintainable tricks..." "... Pointers to functions ... few C programmers understand them or would ever need them..." "... a C programmer never needs to know what a byte is..."