looking at binary files with C

[Uno]

[...]

Code as disorganized as what you present here will fail
with high probability. You have posted in clc enough to
have heard most of the advice on writing good code, and
heard all the mistakes tyros make, some of which you
made here.

Perhaps at this time you are incapable of writing good
beginner's code even with help. What do you say? Do you
want to tackle this?

Get bent. That's english for your english sucks.

And plonk.

 

[Michael Press]

[...]

Code as disorganized as what you present here will fail
with high probability. You have posted in clc enough to
have heard most of the advice on writing good code, and
heard all the mistakes tyros make, some of which you
made here.

Perhaps at this time you are incapable of writing good
beginner's code even with help. What do you say? Do you
want to tackle this?

Get bent. That's english for your english sucks.

What does English have to do with this?

And plonk.

That's not English.

 

[James Waldby]

What does English have to do with this?


That's not English.

It certainly is. For example, the Wikipedia entry for Plonk (wine)
says "Plonk is an unspecific and derogatory term in British and
Australian English for wine that is notably inexpensive or judged
to be of poor quality." However, Uno, who is the plonker[*] in
the above exchange, undoubtedly meant it in the Plonk (Usenet)
sense, "adding a particular Usenet poster to one's kill file".

[*] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonker>

 

[J. J. Farrell]

[...]

Code as disorganized as what you present here will fail
with high probability. You have posted in clc enough to
have heard most of the advice on writing good code, and
heard all the mistakes tyros make, some of which you
made here.

Perhaps at this time you are incapable of writing good
beginner's code even with help. What do you say? Do you
want to tackle this?

Get bent. That's english for your english sucks.

Interesting; not that it's topical, but what's wrong with his English?
It looks fine to me.

 

[Tim Rentsch]

#define SIZE 100000
[...]
long a[SIZE];
[...]
for (j = 0; j < 7000000; ++j) {
[...]
So, why the seg fault?

Choose the phrase that most accurately completes this statement:
"7000000 is ________ 100000."

a) less than
b) greater than
c) equal to
d) more equal to
e) more tweeted than

Great answer! Definitely deserves a "Best in thread"
award.