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Re: gEDA-user: pcb plugin smartdisperse fails on load



On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 08:38 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > Means C didn't find the function, and it assumes it returns integer in
> > that case. Dumb convention IMO.
> 
> "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success." - Dennis M. Ritchie.

True.. very true. I believe the behaviour in question dates back to the
days where prototypes were very different, and C sometimes had to
assume.

I've been debugging some problems in a large 3D CAD + FEA system written
in C++ recently. Give me nice C code that ANY day over that impenetrable
crap.


-- 
Peter Clifton

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University of Cambridge,
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