From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] c's comment
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:06:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207140635.nlwngnu5alrqnekn@h-174-65.A328.priv.bahnhof.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207083154.ucpd6qim3ghclfhn@crack.deadbeast.net>
On 7 Dec 2018 03:31 -0500, from g.branden.robinson@gmail.com (G. Branden Robinson):
> Back in the old days (1993!) a freshman programmer on SunOS 4 would be
> subjected to a truly incomprehensible chain of compiler errors that
> arose from a single lexical mistake like a missing semicolon.
That's around the time when I first started dabbling in C. One of the
first things I figured out was that it was a great help to ignore all
errors but the first one if I got a slew of errors during compilation;
figure out how to fix that first one, recompile, and see if the other
errors went away. Usually, they did. Thankfully, the programs I was
working on at the time were small, so compilation time wasn't an
issue.
I think that advice was even in one of the books I was (trying to)
follow.
--
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
“The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person
is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-07 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-07 4:27 Caipenghui
2018-12-07 8:31 ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-12-07 9:53 ` Caipenghui
2018-12-07 14:06 ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2018-12-07 15:01 Richard Tobin
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