C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 21, 2019 11:22 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: C, Fortran, and single-character strings by imMute
Parent article: C, Fortran, and single-character strings

That depends on the definition of "working".
It was working code, if the definition was: "Get the actual job done."
Most people care about getting things done, not about ABI definitions.

C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 21, 2019 12:37 UTC (Fri) by nivedita76 (subscriber, #121790) [Link] (2 responses)

This attitude is exactly what the woodpecker comment is getting at.

C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 22, 2019 10:21 UTC (Sat) by Jandar (subscriber, #85683) [Link]

> This attitude is exactly what the woodpecker comment is getting at.

This attitude is accepting reality and not naming something inconvenient fake facts. If something works than it works - fact. The goal isn't simply to get something to work, it is to get something to work safe and reliable. This distinction between simply working (maybe only backed by luck) and good engineering is the topic of the woodpecker comment.

C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Posted Jun 27, 2019 14:51 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

If I look at my 2 houses, the same attitude is used by house builders as well...