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to: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
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date: 2019-02-25 10:44:00
subject: Re: Rre: C is not a low l

On 2019-02-24 11:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> That was the beauty of C. Years ago I was handed a ghastly hack of
> TurboPascal that needed to read a ram disk clock, and decide whetheer it
> was a FAT, File entry,  or a data block. Based on the first few bytes it
> might be almost anything.
>
> It proved quicker to write it in C where the data block could be read as
> an array of words, then depending on the value of some works, cast into
> an array of something else or a struccture...


That only says that you are better in C than in Turbo Pascal

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