Re: A conversation with a C programmer

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I have to scratch my head about the C programmer who is not already familiar with glob().

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Re^2: A conversation with a C programmer by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Mar 16, 2006 at 19:57 UTC
I've been using C for best part of 25 years, but I'd never encountered glob() until I used Perl. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: A conversation with a C programmer by talexb (Chancellor) on Mar 19, 2006 at 21:50 UTC
Guilty. I just did a `man glob` and discovered it's right there in the libraries. Wow. I'd always used the `findfirst` and `findnext` functions before. I used C from 1981 regularly till about 1998, when I moved over to Perl, and during that time I'd never seen a `glob` function in the C run time libraries I used So, go ahead, scratch away. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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