Re: C coding
Buck Calabro <[email protected]>
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On 2/14/2014 9:09 AM, Jevgeni Astanovski wrote: > Learning C is indeed not like breathing, but as soon as you know how to master it, writing is as easy as breathing. RPG programmers almost never think about the bare metal. C programmers almost all do. I think that this is the source of much pain for an RPG programmer trying to learn C. IBM APIs are documented quite well - for a C programmer. It's the simplest thing in the world to go from the docs to a struct, assign a pointer and walk down the tree. In C. This is a foreign concept to RPG programmers; just looking at the docs scares many off. Over on the RPG list we field a fair number of C-ish questions relating to IBM APIs. Such threads often spawn 'try a different language' posts, which sometimes degenerate into 'my language is better than yours'. --buck -- This is the Bare Metal Programming IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) (C400-L) mailing list To post a message email: C400-L-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/c400-l or email: C400-L-request-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/c400-l.