[TUHS] Re: Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>]

Rik Farrow wrote in
 <CACY3YMHzg+6U_zTuhMTORgfh_Kse6MTspaGDfuUjXb4vLvV9mw@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM Steffen Nurpmeso 
 |
 || Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by
 || incompetence.
 |
 ||is the signature of Poul-Henning Kamp (whose email regarding that
 ||cstr list <snip>

 |This is the 'problem' with C/C++: it's not the language itself so much as
 |the people who are allowed, or forced, to use it. Many, if not all, of the
 |people on this list have worked with great programmers, when most
 |programmers are average at best. I saw some terrible things back when doing
 |technical sales support for a startup selling a graphics library with C
 |bindings. I came away convinced that most of the 'programmers' I was
 |training were truly clueless.

I cannot comment on that, humans "get a good job with more pay you
are ok", have interests here and there, have (unfulfilled)
desires, problems with family or partner, aka "that sex machine",
and so in the end one can be lucky if that was not Jeffrey Dahmer
or something, and you do not end up as canned.  "Or forced", yes!

Here on this lists are (me aside) intellectual but especially
witty people who love(d) their (likely) even-more-than-a-job, at
the "top of the pyramid", Mr. McIlroy just again remembered an
impressive scenario of how these people were (and are)
self-driving up that spiral staircase with nothing but the help of
their mind and a free library .. which was available for them.

Other than that, you know, there are plenty of languages with
plenty of support (syntax checks, sanitizers, "debug stuff"), far
beyond vim(1), let that start with JAVA (documented pretty well
right from the start as far as i know), and all the other options
that arose since then, and in parts are used.  I personally "go on
the gums" if i have to work with OpenSSL, and image processing is
no fun either, so it could be it was me who drove you down...
(And complexity is never easy, i think, to noone.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)