[sac-forum] Re: Paul's Programming

 
Paul, THAT'S ENOUGH OF THIS PROGRAMMING DISCUSSION.  IN CASE YOU HAVE
FORGOTTEN THIS IS AN ASTRONOMY LIST NOT A DISCUSSION ABOUT PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGES!!!

I DON'T WANT THIS ON THIS LIST, GAVEL THIS TO A CLOSE.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT GAVEL TO A CLOSE MEANS!!

aj

Paul Dickson wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:48:13 -0800, Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote: What is
youropinion of C? It has a reputation of being very fast and easy to learn,
and I know of one case where it is being used in academic research to write
programs for phyogenetic studies because it is so fast. Short answer:
High-level assembly language. Longer: You end up spending far more time
coding the details of how to load and store data than you do solving the
problem. This detail is important for operating systems and other embedded
applications, but most applications don't need this level of detail. C is
notan easy language to learn how to use correctly. It's pretty trivial if
youdon't use pointers. But since C passes data to functions using
pass-by-value, you can't do much without pointers. Especially if you don't
know in advance how much data you'll be working with. At that point you
startallocating memory for buffers and lists. You have a headache just
waiting to happen. -Paul

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