It still amazes how many people think they are programmers becasue they can use Dark Basic, Blitzbasic etc. I'm still fairly new to the game of 'C' but am I right in thinking that Dark Basic is not a language as such it is just a kind of template if you like of lots of different languages, as in Basic and c/C++?

If you're not writing hundreds of if statements yourself, it's not a programming language. You're on the right track by learning C.

- taubz

Why write hundreds of if's when you could use a switch? (actually I prefer if/else if/else blocks myself)

what? why dont you like switch statments? i hate having those deeply nested if/else statements

you don't write them correctly if they look nested. You probably do this:

if(){}
else{
____if(){}
____else{
________if(){}
________else{
________}
____}
}

You should do this:

if(){}
else if(){}
else if(){}
else if(){}
else{}

(underscores used because the leading spaces are disregarded by this screwy message board)

actually, they'd be disregarded by your web browser anyway.

CodeRed, stop preaching your code formatting ideologies to the rest of us.

This is the first such time I have done so as far as I can remember

I have a rather clear recollection of my message reguarding "Code structure" being answered with a message with a whole program on one line...