DB> "C was *meant* to be dangerous!"

 BL> Yair... I don't think it's for me.

 KR> i think that the difference is like driving yourself, as
 KR> against flying in an airliner. in the latter case, there are
 KR> all sorts of people around to make sure that you don't come to
 KR> any harm, in the former, it is all up to you, no one is there
 KR> to prevent you from driving off a cliff if you misread the road
 KR> sign. i, being a hacker by nature hate writing in ada or
 KR> pascal, but when i fly i do hope to hell that the software in
 KR> the 'plane's autopilot was written in one of these. 

   I like your analogy. 

  Bloody C ate some of my hard disc last night, and this morning
TinyPoint fainted when it got the mail. I couldn't find what went
wrong, but it came good when I reinstalled... bloody C!

  I've been using Windows happily for three years but my method is
vicious: as soon as an application stuffs up, I throw it away. I've
never had anything as crazy as C before, that not only locks up
Windows, but it overwrites the hard disc at random like Russian
roulette. I've got it on a floppy now (after the horse has bolted).

Regards,
Bob


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