[ILUG-BOM] Seek advice to quit Windows

Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sun Jan 21 00:35:05 IST 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 20:52 +0530, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > I had bought it only to learn about DOS
> > routines for the mouse. Interrupt 33h I think
> 
> There are other places where you can learn about interrupt 0x33, 8-bit
> colors, playing WAVs and displaying BMPs in TurboC, etc.. One of them
> is the Internet.

EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSEE MEEEEEE............. DONT presume
anything about ANYONE.

1. I and other normal MIDDLE CLASS students did NOT have access to the
internet.

2. There were NO competent faculties around to guide us.

3. We had to use whatever WE HAD.

Considering all the above facts, I think I've turned out pretty well.
Whatever knowledge, whatever skills I have developed are all self
learned. FYKI I got a decent access to the internet only about 5 years
ago. You might've been on the internet ever since its inception but we
mere mortals have not.

> These are not clever hacks by any stretch of the imagination. I have
> not had the privilege to look at the code written by any of these
> companies, but I have never across such things in any project worth
> its name. K&R is quite categorical about discouraging such usages.

Yes, but it is the REQUIREMENT of the times. I have not come across a
single place where YPK stresses the importance of using such kind of
constructs. All he shows the student is that IT IS POSSIBLE to do such
stuff with C.

Buddy, you might've had CSE gurus all around you but most average
children dont. So we have to go by what we can find and YPK's LUC is the
most visible book around. Few people have heard about K&R's books. Well
thats how the ground reality is.

And dont even get me started about what kind of students we have. They
cant even learn using books by themselves I dont think they'll be able
to write even the "Hello World!" program if you give them K&R's book. It
is in no way meant for beginners. It is mainly a guide to how the C
language works.

> No they do not. The way these operators work is compiler dependent.

Yes, its undefined behavior. But as mentioned by YPK, the defacto
compiler was TC and he uses it to demonstrate how operators work.

> eg., it is often said ++i is more efficient than i++ when one simply
> has to increment i. But there is no guarantee that it will be so in
> every compiler under the sun. Therefore they are simply misleading the
> 'normal' students.

The 'normal' student doesnt understand how a compiler works. 99.9999% of
our engineers dont know what a compiler is written in. There is no
question of misleading anybody. The rest 0.0001% students are smart
enough to find the right way!

-- 
Regards,

Dinesh A. Joshi




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