29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
3:58 p.m.
At 07:32 PM 1/29/2003 +0000, E.B. Dreger wrote:
s/compiler/programmer/
Now write programs to toss around buf_t* instead of char*. It's not that difficult.
No, it isn't, as is doing buf_t[x] rather than pointer arithmetic, but the *practical* problem is that you really need 1,$s/compiler/programmer/ :-) In other words, there are far fewer compilers, interpreters, Java Virtual Machines, libraries etc. in use than there are programmers using them. So working the tools angle gives you leverage across far more programmers and the programs they create. Cheers, Mathew