[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[dave at cca.org]

mcguire at neurotica.com writes:

>  I have a problem with this.  If you need dynamic storage in C and
>don't want the overhead of something like a linked list, a tree, or
>whatever, there's nothing wrong (or unclean, or otherwise bad) with a
>dynamically allocated array in C.  If properly implemented, dynamic
>allocation of arrays will not impact portability in the least.

>  An inexperienced C programmer says "C gives me enough rope to hang
>myself."  An experienced one says "C stays out of my way and lets me
>get work done efficiently."

I think the standard "enough rope to hang yourself" critics of C
forget that C is a mid-level language, not a high-level one.

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