[H-GEN] C programming idioms

Russell Stuart russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
Mon Feb 19 00:34:25 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:21 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> I am also fond of the various Programming Pearls books by Bentley, but
> again I don't think they are part of the answer to the original
> question.  Back when the articles they were constructed from were
> written for CACM in the early 1980's, the world was quite different.
> Hardware was very costly and not very powerful.  Programmers were very
> cheap and considered their time should be spent getting the best out of
> the limited hardware.
> 
> Today, hardware is more or less free.  Programmers are relatively costly
> and need to be as effective as they can in a limited time frame.

I am perhaps stepping where angles fear to tread,
But if you are programming in a world where
programmers are expensive and machine time is
free, then you probably shouldn't be using C.





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