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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using C for the First Programmin
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Date: 24 Apr 89 19:14:07 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <13.244F09BA@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Ron.Merts@p10.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ron Merts) writes:
>When I learned C i felt like I was learning lots of useless stuff.  It took me about 2 hours to get the syntax down pretty well, and 2 months to learn how to semi-effectivly (sp?) use the functions to do what I wanted.  Now 2-1/2 years later I finally feel that I have most of the language under control; although I do still see some programs that amaze me at what is done with such small code.  Also some people like to find ALL of the possible ways to convolute a "for" or "while" loop all inside the parenth




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Now if you could only use an editor that actually inserts carriage-returns
in a wordwrapped document...

				--Blair
				  "There was young whore from Paree, with a mout