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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C test
Message-ID: <917@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 17:22:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.917
Posted: Mon Aug 10 17:22:33 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 06:43:15 EDT
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1545@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
>> > Improve the following code fragment through reorganization: [...]
>To me, the correct answer is:
>4) "That's not my job.  That's the job of the compiler writer."
[and goes on to say that his compiler generates identical code]

Fine, if you interpret "improve" to mean "optimize the generated code".  I
interpreted it as "improve the *style*", which *is* the programmer's job.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint