CompuServe Messages

Dave, Sorry about the name. Either there is another 'Hankins' with first name Dan, or I have somehow had it wrong all along. Yes, I've played with Gimpel's lint, and yes, I know you can selectively turn off error messages. The problem I see with that approach is that many of the messages might indeed point to a real problem at some time, and turning them off would seem to be inviting trouble. For me, assembler has two more distinct advantages. The first is that I am far more comfortable with it than I am with C, and the second is that I can code faster in assembler than in C, the latter likely being a direct result of the former. Portability matters not one bit to me, because as soon as I use any machine specific code, portability is out the window anyway, and I seldom write anything that does not have at least some machine specific code (otherwise, why bother? I may as well write for the lowest common denominator). I am also comfortable with high level languages. To me, C is neither low nor high level, is ambivalent in its degree of checking, and far too much is 'left up to the compiler writer'. I haven't even mentioned readability yet. There is a good reason that human languages use more alphabetic characters than punctuation, and compiler inventors would do well to remember that. Ahh… search is finished… there _is_ a Dan hankins who posts to Usenet from Portal. Sorry for the mixup. -larry