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From: blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The greeting code in Java
Date: 21 Jun 2011 20:43:12 GMT
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In article <itpi56$9du$1@dont-email.me>,
Tobias Blass  <tobiasblass@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 2011-06-20, blmblm  myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article <itlgsn$vr8$1@dont-email.me>,
> > Jeff Higgins  <jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> 
> >> On 06/19/2011 02:36 PM, Saeed Amrollahi wrote:
> >> > On Jun 19, 6:31 pm, Jeff Higgins<j...@invalid.invalid>  wrote:
> >> >> On 06/19/2011 09:06 AM, Saeed Amrollahi wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> What are the problems of my code and how can I write
> >> >>> a better one. Please throw some light.
> >> >>
> >> >> What means better?
> >> >
> >> > For example using less abstractions and less involve with Java
> >> > stream class hierarchy.
> >> 
> >> For a beginner, learning to write C in Java is unhelpful.
> >
> > Even in C one would not be likely to input a string by reading one
> > charaacter at a time -- in a beginner program at least.

s/charaacter/character/, of course (why do these details only become
apparently *after* posting?)

> Hmm at least in K&R (the inofficial standard C learning book) you often find
> while((c=getchar())!=EOF)
> 
> It's less performant than reading whole blocks but in many cases much simpler
> (And that's what matters in a learning book)

Well, if you say so (my copy of K&R is not easily accessed right
now).  Certainly that style makes sense in examples in which
the goal is to process a character at a time (to classify/count
characters, for example, or to copy one file to another).

But is this style used in examples in which the objective is to
collect one whitespace-delimited "string" and print it?  Huh.
Maybe I need to reread K&R ....

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.