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From: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers)
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Subject: Re: errors in Alg in "C" by Sedgewick
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Date: 24 Jan 91 03:21:41 GMT
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From article <14939@smoke.brl.mil>, by gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn):

>[Stuff about Sedgewick deleted]

> 
> On a related note, I was extremely disappointed with "Numerical Recipes
> in C", wherein not only is some utterly horrible C coding employed, but
> also the authors explicitly deride the very features of C that they
> should have learned to use effectively before undertaking C coding.
> I haven't studied Sedgewick's book enough to determine whether it has
> similar problems.

I agree. They think that switch statements aren't a good feature!
Perhaps their C code is just machine translated FORTRAN (for the most part)
like the original Pascal code that was stuck in the back of early versions
of 'Numerical Recipes'.

Anyway long live the computed goto :-)
Cheers,
	Glenn

glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au

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