OT: Language for the ages

Tom Peters tpeters at mixcom.com
Sat Oct 15 09:00:14 CDT 2005


Ah, C. Then you have to re-argue the whole question of indentation, 
depending on what your religion believes regarding what amount of 
whitespace is holy and where it should be placed.

"Indentation- The Eightfold Path"
        --Anonymous

01234567 <--The world famous Indent-o-Meter.
      --Lloyd Zusman             ljz at well.sf.ca.us

And my absolute favorite of all time:

"In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six 
feet downward and covered with dirt."
       --Blair P. Houghton


At 04:26 AM 10/15/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> > C is the obvious choice.  In either case, you have to be careful that
> > you don't wreck the portability by using non-portable I/O.
>
>Er, how big is an int? a pointer?
>
>**vp


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