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| From | Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: EXIT_SUCCESS |
| Date | 2016-07-11 19:15 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nm19be$q6v$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 7/8/2016 5:46 PM, James Kuyper wrote: > On 07/08/2016 01:03 PM, Gareth Owen wrote: >> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes: >> >>> I would look forward to your explanation of how that makes any sense >>> at all (preferably, as Richard suggests, in a different thread) >>> if I thought there was a reasonable chance of that happening. >> >> Well if thought "structured" meant "SESE in all circumstances", and your >> program had at least one failure mode and one success mode you'd store >> your return value in a variable and return it in the sole return-statement. > > One of my first significant programming projects involved trying to make > a minor change to a text-based computer game written in spaghetti Basic, > that was deliberately padded to come out to exactly 1000 lines of code. > My first paid programming job involved unraveling a big ball of > spaghetti Fortran code. [...] Speaking of BASIC and FORTRAN... One of my first significant programming projects was to rewrite a rather hefty Star Trek program written in FORTRAN into a rather wimpy version of BASIC. (Why? Because that's the only language that my high school had available "way back when".) -- Kenneth Brody
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-07 19:54 -0700
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-07-07 23:20 -0400
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-08 03:25 -0700
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-08 08:33 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-07-08 18:03 +0100
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-10 16:09 -0600
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-07-11 08:24 +0000
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS gordonb.0aikd@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2016-07-12 18:52 -0500
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Udyant Wig <udyant.wig@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 20:05 +0530
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-07-25 16:06 +0000
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-07-25 17:41 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-25 11:04 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-07-25 19:14 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-25 22:00 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-07-25 22:03 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-25 22:41 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS jadill33@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 14:50 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-25 15:04 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-26 10:43 +0200
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS jadill33@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 14:41 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-26 10:59 +0200
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS jadill33@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 06:20 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-27 15:44 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-27 16:22 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-27 11:20 -0600
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 15:32 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-28 14:47 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-25 08:46 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-26 12:44 +0200
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-26 08:24 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-07-26 19:26 +0200
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-07-26 18:03 +0100
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-11 19:15 -0400
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-07-11 16:46 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-07-15 13:51 +0000
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-07-15 08:07 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-15 14:33 -0400
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2016-07-23 09:07 +0000
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-07-23 16:44 -0500
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2016-07-25 10:36 -0400
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Randy Howard <rhoward.mx@EverybodyUsesIt.com> - 2016-07-25 15:28 -0500
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2016-07-18 09:45 +0200
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS gordonb.bitq1@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2016-07-08 17:56 -0500
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-08 08:35 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 15:03 -0700
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Re: EXIT_SUCCESS luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 15:36 -0700
Re: EXIT_SUCCESS James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-08-01 10:09 -0400
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