On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for > my own use
Why even do that? Just get the source package for cbb, and you save the effort of writing it. > what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C > (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for > writing operating systems. I am a retired physicist and in my career I > wrote many standalone programs for my own use in a variety of languages, > the largest in Turbo Pascal. Pascal had too many variants, probably because it lacked essential features. Each implementer made his own deciaions on what to do for varying-length strings, dynamically-sized arrays, and separate compilation. > I could tackle Perl and tk for cbb or try > Python or some other language but if I do anything I want the result to > live and work happily on my Debian based computer with minimal need for > re-writes to accomodate upgrades. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
