29 Sep
2010
29 Sep
'10
9:14 a.m.
In message: <20100929023819.GA12919(a)bitmover.com>
Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> writes:
: Had a TA who could read octal dumps just like they
: were C. Ken Witte - wonder where he is now. I used to bribe him with
: a six pack to come over and help me and he'd have a beer in his hand
: and the line printer output in the other and be laughing at me for some
: retarded thing I had done that he figured out from the octal.
I used to impress the first year C students by typing 'more core' and
then pointing to a random spot on the screen and saying "Oh, you
passed NULL to strcmp here." The sad thing was, I had about a 75% hit
rate... Not really a 'skill' but rather just knowing the common
errors for the current assignment and being a lucky guesser :)
Warner