Re: C help please - C newbie

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheldon Simms
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>
>> I have seen the effect of a K&R taught programmer coming to grips with
>> an embedded project... wanted to use sdterr and printf to hard disk for
>> debugging on an 8-bit smart card....
>
>And how would other C tutorial books would avoid this problem? They
>seem to pretty much universally assume a console.

Not books on C for embedded use.

>Any why did you have such an incompetent newbie working on the project
>anyway? Do they take people fresh out of their first C programming course
>and throw them on small embedded systems where you work? Sounds like you
>guys must do really high quality stuff...

He was the project manager. His programming dated back to when K&R was
the standard.


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