From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 9 2:38:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494CE1505F; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@cygnus.rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA29003; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 05:40:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 05:40:48 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: Eivind Eklund , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killed Myself In-Reply-To: <199903090733.CAA32299@y.dyson.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, John S. Dyson wrote: > Back in the late '70's, I started investigating C as a programming language. It > took a week to get a "hello world" to compile and link. I was an island, without any > support from anyone. Such experiences do teach one to be somewhat tolerant. > > My mistake: I came from a DEC programming world, and I wrote the program > like this: > > Main() > { > Printf("Hello world\n"); > } > > My brain wasn't trained to be case sensitive (of course, it is now), but that > was a most irritating experience. I wish I could dig up some of my first pascal/C programs, bad enough to peel the paint behind the person trying to read them. The only two other languages i had played with were GWBASIC and Turbo-assembler without any guidance of course... *cough* goto *cough*.... on second thought, keeping them buried might better serve my interests. :) -Alfred > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid > jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message