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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: A glitch regarding the usual malloc() idiom
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:18:52 -0700
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:23:42 PM UTC+1, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 22/07/16 10:23, Malcolm McLean wrote:
>> 
>> > To a script programmer, C is that vile low-level programming language
>> 
>> If you don't like it, you have some choices:
>> 
>> 1) learn to like it;
>> 2) don't use it;
>> 3) put up with not liking it;
>> 4) moan about it constantly.
>> 
>> Option 4 is not attractive.
>> 
> Option 5
>
> use it, but avoid those features which give it a bad name. Especially where
> they don't add significant expressive power. My position is no different to
> those who never use goto.

Feel free to choose option 5.  Please stop choosing option 4 as well.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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