File Pro And Bus Errors

[J. Ryan Kelley]

Fairlight wrote:

>In the relative spacial/temporal region of
>Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:44:27AM -0400, J. Ryan Kelley achieved the spontaneous
>generation of the following:
>  
>
>>>Good Morning,
>>>
>>>I've been working with Filepro for about 8 months now after recently 
>>>graduating from college with a degree in Computer Science.  I've had 
>>>experiences working with everything from C, and C++ to Fortran, to 
>>>Lisp, and countless other languages, however never with FilePro until 
>>>I started at my current position.  When I first started working with 
>>>Filepro, I'll admit, I was impressed with how easy it was to step in 
>>>and start working.  In fact, I was doing some programming in my first 
>>>few hours on my first day.  The primary thing that I have found 
>>>unsettling from day one, however, is the presence of the dreaded Bus 
>>>Error.  I'm quite familiar with Bus Errors (aka Segmentation Faults) 
>>>from my days working in C, where attempting to access a memory 
>>>location you don't have permissions to access would cause this problem 
>>>and dump you out.  It was usually caused by an improperly indexed 
>>>      
>>>
>
>Bus errors almost always relate to mathematical problems, and are quite
>separate from segfaults, which -are- usually due to memory/pointer
>mismanagement.
>
>They're -not- the same thing, and there is no "aka" about it.  If that's
>something you 'learned' while getting your CS degree, I feel more justified
>than ever in my disparagement of our formalised educational system.
>
>Just how much C/C++ didn't you take, anyway?
>
>mark->
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>

I actually didn't "learn" this while getting my cs degree.  This is 
something I've picked up from the filepro "community", many of whom seem 
to use the terms interchangably.  Hence, your attempt to insult my 
intelligence by questioning the validity of my education is unfounded.  
I took 4 semesters of C, along with one semester of C++.  Four semesters 
of C seems like a lot, but when you realize that about one and a half of 
those semesters were spent writing a basic operating system, it's not so 
bad.

--ryan