C coding and Syntax errors

Hello Buck

As ever it is a pleasure to hear from you.
The APIs were an esoteric world to me until I found
( I think it was from Scott) how to translate C to equivalent
RPG.  From there I learnt how to use pointers long before I
ever tried C.

@Jevgeni.
My original question was how do C programmers cope with the
issue of C Syntax Errors.  I did not get much help even on this list.
If I asked the question of the RPG list I would be told go to C list.
Let me say I never set up to disparage C. I think C is enormous.
Your comment makes me feel like the little boy who mentioned
the 'Emperors new clothes'.

PS (it was mentioned use Python then convert Python to C, nuff said)

Frank Kolmann


>date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:48:04 -0500
>from: Buck Calabro <[email protected]>
>subject: Re: [C400-L] C coding
>
>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
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