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Grumman-581 wrote:

Roger (K8RI) wrote:
This was before ANSI C and lint.

I've had more than my share of pre-ANSI compilers... It seems that
nearly every project that I work on, at least one of the machines not
only does not have a C++ compiler for it, it doesn't have one that is
POSIX or ANSI compliant either... As such, you program for the greatest
common denominator -- standard 'C' -- so that you can have a single
piece of source code that compiles across all platforms...

The original C didn't have any type checking. You could add, or
combine anything with anything regardless of type be it an address,
integer, floating point, pointer, array, string, ordinal value, what
ever. It added a new dimension to debugging:-))

But it *built character*... Just look at the quality of developers that
you see these days and it will readily become apparent to you that we
have a *lot* more character than they do...

Yeah. Most of them don't know which end of a soldering iron to pick up,
and wouldn't know what to do with a logic analyzer if you turned it on for
them and stuck their nose in the instruction book.