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tgv on March 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bugs in Hello World

> You don't know that

The first piece of C code in introduction section was meant as production software? I've checked it: that section mentions typing "a.out" in the the UNIX shell to see what happens.

knorker on March 9, 2022 [–]

Sorry, I'm not following. Introduction section of what?

tgv on March 9, 2022 | [–]

The C programming language by Kernighan and Ritchie, the very source of hello world.

knorker on March 10, 2022 | | [–]

Lots of example code leaves out error handling alltogether. Not sure what your point is.

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