Re: Damnit Jim, I'm a Writer, not a Programmer II: The Wrath of K ahn

Subject: Re: Damnit Jim, I'm a Writer, not a Programmer II: The Wrath of K ahn
From: Paul Sinasohn <sinasohn -at- sendmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 18:14:50 -0700



Peter wrote:

> for you non-programmers. try to decipher the meaning of a statement such
> as

> fprintf(urt, "%f.6 %s " , dr, (i=0;1+%r\d;++i));

Hmmm... well, it probably has to do something with printing something,
and maybe it is a file.
Whatever is getting printed, it's going to be printed (or numbered?) in
sets, counted by integers.
There's a semi-colon at the end of the statement, so it's complete in
and of itself.

How did I do??

> Without a basic understanding of the language, few could tell whether I
> have made a syntax error, never mind the meaning.

That's why we have multiple SME's - so they can check each other's
contributions to the docs.

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