Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 05:40:48 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@cygnus.rush.net> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Killed Myself Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990309053554.1330R-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199903090733.CAA32299@y.dyson.net>
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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.
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