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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What's a C expert?
Message-ID: <1336@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 89 17:02:22 GMT
References: <12214@well.UUCP> <6057@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall)
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In article <6057> paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011) writes:
}In article <12214@well.UUCP> tmh@well.UUCP (Todd M. Hoff) writes:
 
}>           What do you need to know to be an expert C programmer?
 
}           I mean, how do you rate an expert?  I consider myself
}pretty good, but sometimes I still check the operator-precedence
}charts.  
 
     That's because they don't make sense.

}How about ... understands why a[i] equals i[a] and CAN EXPLAIN IT,

    a[i] = *(a+i), i[a] = *(i+a), a+i = i+a

}knows what a trigraph is, 

    A crock...