--- kocmotex wrote: > ... the inability of academia to shift gears. After all, if > some of the other free C compilers were taught, such as Pelles C, > lcc-win32, Dev-C, etc, the academia might have to re-write some of > their arcane quiries, such as triple pre-or-postfix notation, viz. > +++y, c---, et al. > svegda,
Could you expand about this topic? I wrote a small application to illustrate this topic, but I have no idea on how Turbo C would compile it: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main (int argc, char **argv) { if (argc<3) { fprintf (stderr, "Usage: problem number number\nWhere number is a decimal integer.\n"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } int a = atoi (argv[1]); printf ("The first argument was %d.\n", a); int b = atoi (argv[2]); int c = a---b; printf ("%d = %d---%d\n", c, a, b); c = a+++b; printf ("%d = %d+++%d\n", c, a, b); return 0; } I must go to sleep now.