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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 23:20:57 -0500 Derek Martin <blu at sophic.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:26:30PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > tool. A good C program should compile and run on GCC on Linux, Unix, > > Cygwin or on Windows as a console app compiled under Visual C++. > > While I agree with this 100%, I ran into a situation where I initially > received a failing grade on an assignment because the workstations I > did my homework on had old versions of the C libraries, I don't recall is Ultrix had a fully ANSI C. The standard library functions, such as fscanf, may have had different return values before ANSI C. (ANSI C fscanf returns the number of conversions). I'm not all that strict in that I give my students some leeway. Most work full time and can't be expected to hand around the college every day. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20030215/c12d78dd/attachment.sig>
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