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From: Tim_CDC_Roberts@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 1000 lines of C a week?
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Date: 13 Jun 89 16:15:33 GMT
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In <18783@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>, sc2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu asks with
  tongue in cheek:

>>A project needs a person with a proven capability of generating
>>a thousand lines of debugged C a week.  
>
>Okay, how about this?
>  
>   /* compute square root of a number if less than 1000 */
>   float comp_sqrt(x)
>   int x;
>   {
>    if (x  == 1)
>      return (sqrt(x));
>     ....
>     
> Do I get the job?

Since you didn't declare "double sqrt (double)", and you are passing an int 
to a function expecting a double, and returning a double for a function
that is supposed to return a float, this function will fail on any machine 
where sizeof(int) != sizeof(double) or sizeof(float) != sizeof(double). 

Since the specifications clearly called for "a thousand lines of DEBUGGED
C a week", you obviously do NOT get the job.  Sorry.  I hear McDonalds is
hiring.

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