#What goes where?
17-Feb-88 21:37:04
Sb: #109572-#What goes where?
Fm: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
To: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006
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Yes, Steve, thank you… that's basically it. I wish I could remember some
of the hoop-jumping I've had to do in my programming life; unfortunately I
think my mind tends to throw up mental blocks against that sort of memory.
8)
The two cases that do come easily to mind are a BASIC program which was
required to execute an entered formula (I think John Foust commented on the
same problem earlier; I managed to do it WITHOUT all his tests, but only at
the expense of jumping through one MAJOR hoop), and a recent FORTRAN
program which by all rights should have been trivial but wasn't… because
FORTRAN doesn't allow recursion. Neither of these directly fit the issue
in question, but at least they illustrate the problems one can run into
working with a language which is inflexible in the one area one happens to
need. About the only thing that's gotten in my way with C so far is the
requirement that switch cases have to be constants… it'd be nice to be
able to use variables once in a while.