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Re: Why C has Pointers.

From 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com>
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Subject Re: Why C has Pointers.
Date 2011-12-28 03:21 -0800
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Nick Keighley於 2011年12月28日星期三UTC+8下午6時58分40秒寫道：
> On Dec 19, 9:47 pm, 88888 Dihedral <dihedr...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:38:58 AM UTC+8, John Tsiombikas wrote:
> > > On 2011-12-19, 88888 Dihedral <dihe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > In a virtual memory system of a descent OS,
> > > > there's no studpid checking in the ap level.
> >
> > > What is the ap level?
> > > All virtual memory systems I'm aware of use page-level protection at
> > > least. That is, invalid accesses to unmapped or protected pages are
> > > trapped by the system and are used to either kill the application or
> > > perform demand paging.
> >
> > > > But if someone is writing AP in the real memory of some machine,
> > > > it is still no need to check in C in the release version by a professional
> > > > programmer.
> >
> > > I don't see how writing code as a profession or as a hobby has anything
> > > to do with this.
> >
> > Writing code as a hobby is good toward a professional programmer.
> 
> not if they take a "this is only a hobby so quality doesn't matter"
> attitude. Pretty soon hobby attitudes leak through to professional
> programs. What sort of hobby is it where you don't care?
> 
> > Many engineers just write programs in the open source of sourceforge site
> > for fun.
> 
> and they write shit?

Not really at all, some are experiments and some are excellent. 

Nowadays programmers can sharpen their programming skills very fast in the 
open source projects. I remembered in the old days of workstations and mainframes. One had to pay service fees for those vendors of trivial settings 
from time to time  after installing new software packages that conflicted 
some packages installed.

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Why C has Pointers. curixinfotech <curixinfotech.54dl3z@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au> - 2011-12-07 07:22 -0500
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-12-07 04:35 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-07 07:58 -0500
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      Re: Why C has Pointers. Bill Reid <hormelfree@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 06:29 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@hotmail.it> - 2011-12-07 14:50 +0100
    Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-07 11:01 -0800
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      Re: Why C has Pointers. Brian <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-12-07 20:00 +0000
        Re: Why C has Pointers. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-07 15:30 -0500
          Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-07 12:43 -0800
            Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-07 13:09 -0800
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  Re: Why C has Pointers. August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 16:16 +0100
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-08 18:32 +1100
    Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-08 00:20 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 13:44 +0100
        Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-09 05:04 -0800
          Re: Why C has Pointers. gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-12-09 14:59 +0000
            Re: Why C has Pointers. Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-12-09 20:19 -0800
            Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-10 07:36 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-08 00:12 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> - 2011-12-15 07:26 +0000
  Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-17 08:51 -0800
    Re: Why C has Pointers. Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2011-12-17 10:10 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-17 14:28 -0600
        Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-17 15:00 -0600
        Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-17 13:55 -0800
          Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-17 18:27 -0600
            Re: Why C has Pointers. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-18 01:26 +0000
              Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-17 22:34 -0600
                Re: Why C has Pointers. "Philip Lantz" <prl@canterey.us> - 2011-12-17 23:48 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. superpollo <superpollo@tznvy.pbz> - 2011-12-18 11:06 +0100
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-18 13:44 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2011-12-18 11:05 -0500
                Re: Why C has Pointers. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-18 11:50 -0500
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-18 13:10 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-27 16:03 -0600
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                Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 15:08 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-27 20:09 -0600
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 23:00 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-28 02:53 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-28 08:39 -0500
                Re: Why C has Pointers. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 18:14 -0500
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-27 15:36 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-27 18:53 -0500
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2011-12-28 13:20 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2011-12-28 08:42 -0800
              Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-17 20:36 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 04:56 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-17 21:37 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 05:42 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-18 08:08 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-18 10:36 -0600
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 18:50 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-19 02:39 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. gordonb.1i27q@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-12-21 22:34 -0600
                Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-19 07:56 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org> - 2011-12-19 18:38 +0000
                Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-19 13:47 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-28 02:58 -0800
                Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-28 03:21 -0800
            Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-18 13:07 -0800
              Re: Why C has Pointers. "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-12-19 04:02 +0100
        Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-17 15:35 -0800
          Re: Why C has Pointers. ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-17 18:41 -0600
        Re: Why C has Pointers. John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 05:14 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-18 09:50 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-09 15:48 -0800
        Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-10 00:21 -0800
          Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-10 01:03 -0800
    Re: Why C has Pointers. Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-17 11:45 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-17 15:18 -0800
      Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-19 14:10 -0800
        Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-20 10:46 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2011-12-17 19:15 +0100
    Re: Why C has Pointers. "Skybuck Flying" <Windows7IsOK@DreamPC2006.com> - 2011-12-17 19:19 +0100
      Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-19 02:48 -0800
  Re: Why C has Pointers. 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-18 11:05 -0800
    Re: Why C has Pointers. Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-12-19 02:48 -0800

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