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Intuition Structures

    16-Nov-85 01:02:31
Sb: Intuition Structures
Fm: steve poling 70177,1434
To: Dave Haynie/C128 Land 76703,2047
AUE CONTRAIR. ONE WOULD END UP LEARNING MUCH MUCH MORE ABOUT THE AMIGA BY LEARNING EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEEDED TO INCLUDE AND EXACTLY WHAT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITHOUT. I AGREE WITH YOU, HOWEVER. ONE DOES NOT WANT TO DO _MAIN() UNLESS ONE HAS AN AXE TO GRIND. FOR ME IT WAS TWO VMS PROGRAMS WHICH WERE IN C AND FORTRAN. THE C PROGRAM TOOK AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE MORE CODE SIZE. WHY? ALL THE RUN TIME SUPPORT THAT I DIDN'T NEED TO DO THE JOB. THERE ARE INDEED BETTER WAYS TO LEARN C THAN TRYING TO FOX A FEW BYTES OF CODE OUT OF A COMPILER. SDP Enter command, N for next message or <CR> for menu : n