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0 pointsspitfire14y ago0 comments

I think that might be what he was getting at. In my mind both the groups sort of meld together as "non-engineers".

If you can't handle a pointer, you have no business being near a compiler. If you don't know why you (usually) don't want to handle a pointer, you have no business calling yourself an engineer.

0 pointsspitfire14y ago0 comments

I think that might be what he was getting at. In my mind both the groups sort of meld together as "non-engineers".

If you can't handle a pointer, you have no business being near a compiler. If you don't know why you (usually) don't want to handle a pointer, you have no business calling yourself an engineer.

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mjwalshe14y ago· 2 in thread

WARNING JOKE FOLLOWS

Real "engineers" of course write in Fortran and have no truck with this la di dah hippy pointer stuff :-)

angersock14y ago

tell me more about string processing arbitrary command lines pops

mjwalshe14y ago

Sucks pipe and leans back in the rocking chair :-) actually ratfor was a very good pre-processor for text.

Though I did work on a big billing system for Dialcom systems that was mostly written in Fortran 77.

rdouble14y ago· 1 in thread

I guess my comment reads a bit snarky but i didn't mean to be disparaging about anyone's engineering relevance, just that they are different kinds of guys.

spitfireOP14y ago

I didn't read it as snarky. I'm just a snarky old crusty sailor.

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