laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton) (10/28/85)
Hello gang. I got 97 messages the day before yesterday about the book I am writing. I got 84 yesterday. I have 57 so far today. They are nearly all from different people. Boy is there a lot of disatisfaction! The credit page is going to be full of names! Replying to this onslought is going to take time. I am not ignoring all of you, it is just that it takes me about half an hour to reply to an average message and I don't have that many hours. Thank you all for yoru time. For those of you who haven't written me yet but intend to: I have all the replies about PROGRAMMING STYLE that I can handle. I am going to advocate K&R style of braces, adn will follow the Indian Hill Style Sheet pretty closely. The Elements of Programming Style is a great book. This is not quite what I intend to write, however. If you think that a ``slightly unportable'' program that dereferences null pointers is like a ``slightly inefficeint'' program that should use registers better, then we are not working in the same arena of ideas. I think that giving people such a program is like giving them an automobile that is unsafe to drive on the freeway, and not telling them of the fact. If you have worked on a PR1ME, then you have well and truly suffered and my hat is off to you. -- Help beutify the world. I am writing a book called *How To Write Portable C Programs*. Send me anything that you would like to find in such a book when it appears in your bookstores. Get your name mentioned in the credits. Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura (that is ell-five, not fifteen) l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa