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To: krb
If you think of C as the closest thing to a “platform independent assembly language” as can exist, it starts to make more sense.

I can certainly see that, but it's the nuts-and-bolts, practical side of understanding the structure, the grammar and the maddening, seemingly cryptic application of indentation that makes me crazy. T-SQL, BASIC, PASCAL and other database programming languages were never that hard to understand. Boy - did date myself with that.

19 posted on 09/08/2011 3:36:14 PM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: Noumenon
seemingly cryptic application of indentation

With C you can indent any way you want. The BNF grammar for C considers tabs, spaces, and newlines as whitespace.

21 posted on 09/08/2011 4:21:51 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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