Re: Increasing efficiency in C

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:09:31 -0700

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:13:54 +0100, "jacob navia"
<jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:

>
>"Alan Balmer" <albalmer@att.net> a écrit dans le message de
>news:rg7f40h5cip022832vsf0v4b8a445o21la@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:48:12 +0100, "jacob navia"
>> <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
>> >I would like to see your specs. It *can* be written in C!
>> >
>> IIRC, that's an example in Koenig's "pitfalls" book.
>>
>
>C is a pitfall then.
>
>I know this opinion is widespread among some people.
>Specially in C++ circles :-)
>
>Why can't be map be written in C?

You misunderstand. Of course it can be written in C, as illustrated in
Koenig's book. Who said otherwise?

As for the book title, "Traps and Pitfalls" books and articles have
been written for a number of languages and end-user programs. It does
not mean that C itself is a pitfall, just that there are pitfalls that
programmers can fall into, particularly novice programmers. This is
true of any language. 

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Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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