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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.conterra.com!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de!juengst From: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs Date: 2 May 1996 12:30:26 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Strahlen- und Kernphysik Lines: 32 Sender: juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ma9t2$ckv@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <Oum-El-Kheir.Benkahla-3004961724540001@mac-ugm-3.imag.fr> <4m8csc$3jg@innocence.interface-business.de> <DqquoL.5z5@kithrup.com> <4m8vn4$3f8@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4m9aon$kh@news.inc.net> Reply-To: juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Host: saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:22348 comp.unix.bsd.misc:889 In article <4m9aon$kh@news.inc.net>, nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson) writes: >Henry G. Juengst <juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de> wrote: >>And POSIX is not ANSI and vice versa. There is no "standard C". >>Add to this that POSIX is not unix, just a subset (e.g. VMS also >>includes POSIX, which is really not unix, fortunately - for VMS). >>That makes it much more difficult for beginners. > >Geez! Lighten up! Youve been making it sound like the learning curve >for C is insurmountable for new programmers. Its not. It just takes >a few weeks a couple thousand lines of code. Why should C be easy >for beginners? Why should beginners be scared of the learning curve? Don't worry! :-) Of course this depends on the person and the goal. But from my experience with many people I can say that C and unix is not the best environment for beginners. > >Its *not* that big a deal. > >Jeremy Henry -- juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de [131.220.161.1] (Internet) omni:.de.uni-bonn.physik.saph1::juengst (DECnet/OSI, phase V) saph1::juengst [26.358] (DECnet, phase IV) Any opinions in this mail are my own.