Is C a 'good' programming language?

[bogeyman]

3 interviews with the same f**king company!

Oh! I see.

Any reason proffered? I'm guessing not.

Don't let it get you down, old dog.

[Churchill]

Oh! I see.

Any reason proffered? I'm guessing not.

Don't let it get you down, old dog.

Cheers bog!

It'll be fine, something will crop up.

[bogeyman]

I hate that because it's too easy to do:

if(x)
    Something()
    SomethingElseIThinkIsInTheCondition()

Or...

if(x)
    // SomethingTemporarilyCommentedOut()
SomethingElseWhichIsNowInTheCondition()

...

Too bloody true VM!

How many many million man hours have been wasted in debugging because of this simple case, I wonder?

[Churchill]

The BIOS didn't include any functionality for handling files. It had low-level disk handling routines for reading and writing sectors and so on. Support for files was supplied by, oddly enough, the file system - for example, MS-DOS.

The BIOS routines were very handy for wandering through the File Allocation Table patching back together accidentally deleted files

Yeah, just ask Peter!

[NickFitz]

Yeah, just ask Peter!

Indeed - for some reason, the (very early) version of Norton Utilities I had didn't actually undelete when you used the "undelete" functionality, so I once spent a pleasant two or three days recovering around 200K of 8086 assembly language, sector by sector

It was a good job I knew the source so well that I could tell the sectors containing code from a few days before from the more recent ones

Bummer about the gig Hugs are available over in TPD.

[d000hg]

You were the first to try and show superiority. You made an assumption and failed.

Sorry, but no. I was reminiscing about my childhood programming hobby (asking questions rather than stating facts as it happens). If it makes you feel happy to demonstrate you know more than a 12-year-old, I won't take that away from you.






You could mention it in your next interviews...

[RichardCranium]

crossness

Calm down.
a) this is Technical.
b) you've over-reacted.

[Churchill]

BIOS? We're not talking about PCs.

MOV AX,4c00h
INT 21h

Same difference, smartarse.

You made the wrong assumption and also resorted to insults.

Your problem not mine. Also, the jibe about interviews, not big and certainly not clever.

[Churchill]

Bugger.

You should have asked if you could phone a friend for the electronics bit

Thanks Zeity.

[d000hg]

You made the wrong assumption and also resorted to insults.

Actually, you made the wrong assumption. I was responding to your know-it-all comment about (non)PCs/BIOS. If you're going include thinly veiled rudeness and act superior when you share knowledge, perhaps best not to bother, or at least not be surprised people call you a smartarse (do you deny it?)

Your problem not mine. Also, the jibe about interviews, not big and certainly not clever.

Aw, your feelings are hurt. Nevermind, I'm sure it will soon blow (goats) over.