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Re: Doubts about pointers

Subject: Re: Doubts about pointers
From: Richard Heathfield
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:09 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c

ymuntyan@xxxxxxxxx said:

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> So indeed "serious enough" back then are again "hardly serious"
> now. Here's a quote: "If one needs the source to make the
> implementation conform, then that's a serious problem
> that effectively renders the game not worth the candle,
> and one would be better off seeking a better implementation."
> Guess whose words these were.

Mine. So what? Do you have a list of conformance issues, or not?

> You are a real Turbo C fan, just admit it :)

A bit, yes, and I don't mind admitting it. I don't *use* it terribly often, 
but I did have cause to use it quite recently, and I found it very 
comfortable indeed. I would have no hesitation whatsoever in using it to 
teach C to someone who, for whatever reason, didn't have access to a 
32-bit system, or perhaps someone who wanted to be able to do nice easy 
graphics Real Fast and Real Simple.

<snip>
 
> Yep. Borland is a perfect company,

I disagree. For one thing, its Marketing Department should be fired, en 
masse. Borland has always been hopeless at marketing.

> it makes perfect software.

Again, I must disagree with you. But I *will* agree that it makes pretty 
good software.

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