C Review

[Mike Meyer]

In article <3548 at bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
>This reviewer is a loser, demand his/her/its credentials.

True.

>Someone thought the reviewer must be a hopeless academic, I find it
>hard to believe any academic would disparage use of terms like
>'lvalue', more likely the opposite, also the obsession with "very few
>professional programmers know about..." sounds more like an industry
>person trying to pontificate on the state of art then someone who
>*teaches* people (such people don't usually criticize based upon the
>premise that some knowledge is *bad* for the student.)

What I thought interesting about the "9x% of C programmers" statements
was that, if true, they make a good case for discussing them in a C book.

Actually, I think someone needs to write a paper on teaching C;
"Teaching the lingering illness", or some such.

	<mike