FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for October 03, 2014

He was supposed to write “I will not throw paper airplanes in class” 500 times. Instead he wrote computer code for a program that would do that.

Writing “I will not [do such misbehavior] in class” a certain amount of times can really give you carpal tunnel syndrome. What a harsh punishment.

Silly Jason, puts() is faster than printf() and you don’t even need the explicit newline at the end. Also, C? How old is this comic?

I got it.

Good thing he included the stdio library or it would never have compiled.

Now he is gong to have to write that program five hundred times to satisfy the teacher’s requirements

And no syntax errors. Nice.

I’m grateful for the info, I’m reading as I eat breakfast before work and I don’t have time to try and figure it out. Plus I’m not a programmer so it would just have been one of those comics I never understood, because trust me I wouldn’t have spent much time on it.

Today I would not be surprised if that teacher got fired for doing this….And the parents suing the school and winning.

More likely meant to be C++ than C as main() returns an int, and it´ll only print 499 lines as the test in the loop will not run the 500th iteration. This is why C/C++ indexes from 0 rather than 1. muttergrumbleoldprogrammermuttergrumble

No real programmer starts a loop counter with 1.

The for line should be:for (count = 0; count < 500; count++) {

Or, better yet, in Perl, here’s the whole thing:

$i = 0;$msg = “I will not throw paper airplanes in class\n”;

print $msg while ($i++ < 500);

Um… I still program in C… Lots of use still. That said, I wrote my Internet company’s billing system in Perl 20 years ago.

If Jason wanted to blow the teacher’s mind he would have used Assembly Language. Or better yet Machine Code.

BALR 14,15

I program in C too (for work, I write python for fun).

Obligatory python version:

for i in range(500): print(“I will not throw paper airplanes in class”)

I did.

I also have the ORIGINAL from ~2000.

Now that he’s got the program written, he still has to compile and run it, which is going to be hard to do on that blackboard. Most blackboards don’t have a C compiler.

So, does Jason get a “C” for this; or will he get a C++?

Awsome! A cartoonist that knows C!You made my day, since I am just learning to program an Arduino, and everything looked great!

Works for me. (I would have given bonus points)

Doesnt work according to IDEONE.com:Runtime errortime: 0.02 memory: 5312 signal:-1

First time I saw this strip, I was still programming in C.

Personally, I’m having a Bart Simpson moment here.

(Can’t believe no one’s said this yet …)