Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays

From	Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays
Date	2016-12-06 16:48 +0000
Organization	Fix this later
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On 06/12/16 16:22, Alla _ wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 5:49:58 PM UTC+3, Richard Heathfield wrote:

<snip>

>> Don't make the mistake of thinking that experts on other subjects are
>> necessarily experts on C. Charles Petzold, for example, has a
>> tremendously in-depth knowledge of the Windows programming API, but his
>> C is absolutely gerharsterly.[1] The trick is to be able to extract the
>> good teaching and leave the bad C behind.
>>
>>
> Of course, I understand all that. It doesn't apply only to C and/or programming )
>
>> [1] Out of curiosity, I looked up this word in a Web search just now. To
>> my surprise, I only got seven hits. To my even greater surprise, *all
>> seven* of them were Web copies of articles I had posted to Usenet.
>>
>> Oh well. I guess this makes it eight.
>>
> Does it mean that this word is your invention?

No. That's the strange thing. As far as I can tell, it was Terry 
Pratchett who first used that spelling, in "Moving Pictures" (context: 
"gerharsterly things from the Dungeon Dimensions", or something along 
those lines). But this doesn't seem to have been quoted anywhere on the 
Web, and neither does anyone else appear to have adopted it.

> If so, what does it mean?

It's a corruption of "ghastly", which you will find in any reasonable 
dictionary.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 07:45 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 17:03 +0000
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 09:43 -0800
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 18:16 +0000
        Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 22:46 -0800
          Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 10:23 +0000
            Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 02:53 -0800
              Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 10:58 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 03:42 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 06:31 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 14:49 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 08:22 -0800
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-06 16:48 +0000
                Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 09:15 -0800
          Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-06 08:20 -0800
        Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 22:53 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 09:26 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 09:47 -0800
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 12:10 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 10:00 -0800
    Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-12-05 19:11 +0000
      Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-05 12:21 -0800
  Re: Understanding the program that has pointers to two_dimensional arrays "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-12-05 12:50 -0500

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