--- Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard C referred to as a glorified assembler.
Ric (or should it be Rich its been a long time) When I was first introduced to "C" I thought that it was great. Firstly, if you were a beginer you could make all the mistakes that you make in high level languages (e.g. 4/5 will usually be 0, not 0.8). The at the intermediate level, you could also make all those lovely assembler type mistakes (using an address as a value, or a value as an address), and better still, at that point there was no decent debugger. Of course it also introduced a whole host of new mistakes, so for example unlike Fortran where you have to try hard to print an integer using a F or G format, C's (although perhaps not Cs) printf will quite happily attempt to do that for you, without a grimace. I am quite shocked any thing ever works when written in "C" ... Dave. P.S. And GCC for zVM is still available for those who want to try this for themselves.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
