Linux installation

Jerry Feldman gaf at mediaone.net
Fri Jun 26 07:41:45 EDT 1998


On 26 Jun 98, at 7:55, Mike Bilow <mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net> wrote:

> 
> No joke: there really is "Unix for Dummies."  I've seen it for sale.
Yes. I have also. I got turned off on the Dummies book when a high school 
computer science teacher was learning C from the C for Dummies book, and 
many of the examples had:
void main()
{
}

As a language lawyer (because I worked with LINT for so long), main always 
returns an int. (This is required both in ANSI/ISO as well as K&R). Mosty 
compilers allow this unfortunately. I hate language books that violate the language 
spec. Kind of like an English grammar book that uses "ain't" in examples of good 
English.  

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Gerald Feldman <gaf at mediaone.net>
Boston Computer Solutions and Consulting
ICQ#156300



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