Re: Code fails with Segmentation Fault

"santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But for very small programs, such as those you write when you start
learning C, it might be better to mentally "run" the program, rather
than fire up a debugger at a hint of the least problem.

Most of the senior citizens in computer science endorse that point of view.
Careful code inspections will get you more bang for your buck than anything
else.

Some of the senior citizens remember the days when the FORTRAN compiler was
only run twice per day on the shared mini-computer, so the students would
pay careful attention to getting programs (i.e. stacks of punch cards) right
the first time.

It may have been Knuth who said something like "The last thing the world
needs is more highly-interactive programming environments".

As the edit-compile-run cycle gets faster, people get more and more
careless.



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