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Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!!

From Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!!
Date 2016-08-01 21:44 -0600
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Jason Benjamin <hexusnexus@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0300, Real Troll wrote:
>
>> It is time to stop discussing religion and instead we should start
>> serious discussion about C.  Lets start with something simple:
>> 
>> 1) This program does a very simple thing but it is amazing it can do
>> this with ease:
>> 
>>> #pragma hdrstop #pragma argsused
>>>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>>
>>> #ifdef _WIN32 #include <tchar.h>
>>> #else
>>>   typedef char _TCHAR;
>>>   #define _tmain main
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
>>> {
>>>     printf ("Hello, World");
>>>     getch();
>>>     return 0;
>>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2) when you run this program, you will get a black screen like this:
>> 
>> <https://s31.postimg.org/ewov7f7uz/black_screen.png>
>> 
>> 3) We can now go and improve this program and expand it to do something
>> valuable.
>> 
>> 4) I hope you all enjoyed this.
>
> Not sure how this would go over at the Ch*** of Em..s though.  Reminds me 
> of the start of some sort of login/password program just by looking at 
> the code.
>[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of 
>his brain instead of the strength of his arm. - Grace Hopper

Much as I admire Admiral Hopper, did she really never encounter an
adding machine?  A slide rule?  An abacus?

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Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-07-31 00:00 -0300
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-07-31 08:38 +0000
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 04:01 -0700
    Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-08-01 10:01 +0200
      Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-08-01 09:18 +0100
      Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-08-01 12:36 +0000
        Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-08-01 05:55 -0700
          Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 06:12 -0700
      Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-08-01 08:37 -0700
        Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-08-01 22:33 +0200
          Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 15:31 -0700
            Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 18:30 -0700
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-07-31 14:04 -0400
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-07-31 15:33 -0400
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Jason Benjamin <hexusnexus@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 03:40 +0000
    Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-01 21:44 -0600
  Re: Please refrain from discussing religion here!! Real Troll <real.troll@trolls.com> - 2016-08-02 00:30 -0400

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