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From: cs9h9tts@cybaswan.UUCP (t.simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: More about BASIC vs. Pascal vs. C (the flame war continues !)
Message-ID: <2294@cybaswan.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 10:39:16 GMT
References: <VBD0w17w163w@mantis.co.uk>
Reply-To: cs9h9tts@cybaswan.UUCP (t.simpson)
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In article <VBD0w17w163w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>rkl@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Richard K Lloyd) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb10.180855.17062@cns.umist.ac.uk>,
>>rogersh%t1a@uk.ac.man.cs writes:
>>
>>hello(param1,param2)
>>int param1,param2;
>>{
>>   printf("Param 2 = %d\n",param2);
>>}
>>
>>main()
>>{
>>   hello(1);
>>}
>>
>>Yes folks, I forgot a parameter and THERE WAS NOT EVEN A WARNING FROM THE
>>COMPILER!
>
>Congratulations. You've realized why nobody makes non-ANSI compilers any
>more. Have a peanut.
>
>>I put it through lint too and NO WARNING AGAIN!
>
>I'm suspicious of this; lint ought to be able to notice things like that. I've
>heard some very nasty comments about HP compilers, so I suspect that you're
>being misled.

I have this funny feeling that Rich was using small-lint (slint) and not
lint, all slint does (i think) is to count brackets etc.

>>>>is the fact that a "Hello World" program in C for the Archimedes can turn
>>out to be big (30 K ?) *and* you need the Shared C library (60K). The
>>equivalent BASIC program ? About 30 bytes :-) :-)
>

I've gotto admit, I do dislike the memory in-efficiency of C.

>

Tom Simpson : cs9h9tts@uk.ac.swan.pyr