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Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 17:50

It's from 1985, a comparatively elderly era of computing. Its ideas are barely relevant today.

The world has moved on, and we are using more modern programming techniques and languages.

Denizens of /prog/, please take my advice and realise that you are wasting your life by worshipping this ancient, forgotten text and its creator.

Thank you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 17:53

have you read it?

Name: >>2 2008-02-12 18:03

No OP, you haven't.
You judge a book by its age without having read it's contents.
That is not very wise.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-12 19:27

Second Edition is from 1996, actually.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 3:48

I agree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 4:14

>>5
You agree with which of the multitude of opinions? Aghhhhh!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-13 5:38

I disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 1:01

Then I suppose that K&R should just be thrown in the trash, eh? Same with TAOCP?

Go read your "Dummies" books and leave us who want to learn and expand our minds alone.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:22

>>8
K&R IS PIG DISGUSTING

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:31

>>9
If you meant the indent style, I'm of the same opinion.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 6:55

http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=4d6d80ba-3f26-4e87-b2a5-0387f1ce6c35

I ran the tests several more times and it turns out that code written using K&R style bracing is almost 1% faster than code written using Allman style!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:19

>>11
...
whoa. im speechless

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:22

>>11
Which is faster, K&R or Allman?
They can't even figure out when to escape HTML characters.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 7:27

And we have been trolled constantly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 8:01

>>13
What does the K in K&R stand for?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 12:45

>>11
Only for interpreted languages. But it probably _will_ compile faster with less whitespace the compile has to read. Marginally faster, mind you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 15:52

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 19:27

I guess we'll have to disagree to agree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 19:30

I guess we'll have to disagree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 20:37

>>19
I agree.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:31

>>20
I disagree.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:33

>>21
I abstain.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-15 21:50

>>22
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 0:36

>>23
I guess we'll have to gather our thoughts and reconvene at a later date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 2:23

>>24
I guess we'll have to reconvene our thoughts and gather at a later date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 5:10

>>25
I guess we'll have to date and gather our reconvene at a later thought.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 10:27

>>26
I thought we'll have a guess at our date and gather to reconvene later.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:03

>>27
I gather we'll have to guess our date and reconvene at a later thought.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:20

>>28
We'll gather and reconvene to guess at our later thoughts. I have a date.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 18:23

>>29
I guess I have flatulence.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 19:58

>>24-29
This could go on for 87,178,291,194 more posts.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 20:50

>>24-29
This could go on for 87,178,291,194 posts more.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 20:58

>>24-29
87,178,291,194 more posts this could go on for.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 21:47

>>24-29
Could this go on for 87,178,291,194 more posts?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 22:42

No.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 22:47

On.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-16 23:06

N.o

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 0:35

oN.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 0:49

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE, BITCHES. FUCKING SAGE.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-17 6:24

BITCHES FUCKING THE FUTURE, TO WELCOME SAGE.

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