Re: Another hyperspace bug found --> random and Neural Net
"Ger Hobbelt" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Marcus Kool <marcus.kool-x/J+dzphU+SB39Oa/[email protected]> wrote: > Back in the old days all C programmers knew exactly how an > unsigned long was stored in a machine. Today compilers Good programmers still do. ;-) Though they are fewer now, at least percentage-wise, taken the whole 'C' developer population as a base count, Good programmers still know what a long, int, etc. look like deep inside there for each platform they work on / port to. If they don't want to bother, they do not use 'C', but Java or other 'virtual machine' languages, e.g. C#. > Moral of the story: do not mix types, they can cause a lot of headaches. Granted, it's like working with explosives. Nice, very interesting, maybe even 'cool', but you should NOT drink and drive/work at the same time. Life is involuntary cut short that way rather rapidly. -- Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards, Ger Hobbelt -------------------------------------------------- web: http://www.hobbelt.com/ http://www.hebbut.net/ mail: [email protected] mobile: +31-6-11 120 978 -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php