Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!pacbell!sactoh0!jak From: jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: a style question Message-ID: <4132@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> Date: 8 Oct 90 02:22:10 GMT References: <65019@lanl.gov> <1990Oct6.231143.28186@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca. Lines: 29 In article <1990Oct6.231143.28186@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > > but simply because (C) >it was easier to work with. This is with experienced programmers, mind you; >it is not an easy language for novices (even those with plenty of experience >programming in other languages). Amen to that! I came to C with strong skills in five other languages, including Pascal and Fortran. Initially I said: "one computer language is much the same as another, C should be easy to learn". Well, its two and a half years since I started with C and about one year of using it for applications. In that time I've only been able to make an intermediate grade. It really is amazing how versital the language is - and how complex. I am curious about two thing here. For those people who have used C for *at least* one year: First: what skill level did you have with the language after one, two, three, four and five years? Second: what was you skill level with the Unix O/S? (Yes, I know there are DO/S and VMS'ers out there. But, I'm mainly intrested in Unix). -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak If something is worth doing, it's worth doing correctly.