Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Flass Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:46 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <1396870532.749421730.052473.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> References: <5mqdnZuGq4lgwm_7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <36KdnVlGJu9VLW77nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <971448126.749088380.092448.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <59CJO.19674$MoU3.15170@fx36.iad> <3hOdnWpQ649QMGr7nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@earthlink.com> <1smdnSjX3YoxgWf7nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:19:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a721c7ebb47ce1144e932a9b0bdb2de"; logging-data="2520151"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX195ZagNjxqIlalWCTogXkhc" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.1 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8hpWBudrphoPYbF+EEow4lL4lCc= sha1:6dv1258O1uyX9CowHpBnQcKtNig= Bytes: 2096 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > printf("hello world"); That's bug proof. Wait, what? Where’s your error checking? What if your printf fails? Actually that’s one of the things I like least about C. It leaves all error checking up to the programmer instead of having even a minimal handler for errors not otherwise caught. -- Pete