[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Apr 18 21:21:57 CDT 2002


On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:56:07PM -0400, dave at cca.org wrote:
> mcguire at neurotica.com writes:
> 
> >  Uhh, what?  Who told you that?  Pointer arithmetic is fine, and is a
> >very effective way to get things done, when it's the right tool for
> >the job.  There is nothing bad about it.  You have to be careful with
> >it, sure...just like, oh, driving a car or pissing without turning the
> >bathroom light on.
> 
> "Pissing without turning the bathroom light on" is an *excellent*
> metaphor for bad C programming.

It is quite easy to piss without light if you use the sit down method.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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