"DBell is one of the best programmers on the planet."
How would one verify this?
I tried a couple of his sample C programs.
One of them was one source and one header file and compiled easily and quickly. A+. But then I looked at what the program did and realized I had written several iterations of the same utility myself years ago, using only the shell, sed, tr and ed or vi. I guess maybe his point of writing this in C is that he envisions a system that lacks those programs?
Then I tried another sample, which was a little more complex.
It failed to compile. Looks like he assumed Linux but failed to state the program is not portable. F.
I am always on the lookout for truly great C programmers.
How would one verify this?
I tried a couple of his sample C programs.
One of them was one source and one header file and compiled easily and quickly. A+. But then I looked at what the program did and realized I had written several iterations of the same utility myself years ago, using only the shell, sed, tr and ed or vi. I guess maybe his point of writing this in C is that he envisions a system that lacks those programs?
Then I tried another sample, which was a little more complex.
It failed to compile. Looks like he assumed Linux but failed to state the program is not portable. F.
I am always on the lookout for truly great C programmers.
Is DBell really as good as Noll says?