Re: Linux compiling

From: Anand Hariharan (mailto.anand.hariharan_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: 3 Dec 2004 15:03:23 -0800

Alwyn <alwyn@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.12.03.07.51.36.638908@blueyonder.co.uk>...
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:04:40 -0600, Jack Klein wrote:
> >
> > The remark above comes from thinking? Perhaps you should work on your
> > thinking skills.
>
> <snip>
>
> > There are quite a few things that are popular among the careless and
> > ignorant. Do you think we should encourage carelessness and
> > ignorance?
>
> What is it about Usenet that makes people get so worked up over such
> trivialities as the correct return type of a C function and make
> violent personal attacks on those whom they perceive to be in disagreement
> with them? Why do programming languages generate the kind of emotion among
> the geeky that one associates with religion and politics in normal people?
>

What possibly annoys the gurus (like Jack) is that main's return type
is something so easy to get it right, that they find it irksome when
folks "refuse" to get it right.

Sometimes, I speculate, that it might have something to do with an
antipathy towards Microsoft (VC6 almost enforces void main, and MSDN
is replete with void main examples) and/or Sun (Java's equivalent of
main returns void).

- Anand

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