[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.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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