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World Without C



I never thought there will be a day where I would write an article on C. But now that a situation has arisen on itself, I need to have you guys alerted how unnerving the world can be without C. 
Every now and then a key gets jammed in my ASUS laptop. It's  -see-'s turn now and  seems like it is going to stay put. So henceforth I will use 'see' instead of  'C'. Make a mental note to read -see- as C when you see a 'see'. I've to tap the letter 'C' so hard(as I did right now) to make it appear that my father appears from the other room to check what I am doing. I guess he is getting more and more skeptikal towards what I am doing these days. Resently he asked me if I needed a new typewriter instead of the one that I am using right now.

When -see- gets jammed and doesn't work, take my word for it, you will find your world turned upside down. For programmers it won't get any worse than this. I didn’t realize that life -see-an get this bad without a letter, that too with -see-. You learn -see-ertain things the hard way.  

First and foremost problem is that you -see-an't  -see-opy your way out  of a programming dilemma. Things get real -see-umbersome when you are into software development or any kind of programming where google is first and foremost provider of every bit of -see-ode you add or -see-hange you make.  Many, eh most, of the -see-odes are the -see-ontributed by Google search results which are duly modified to suit the requirements. Without Google we literally are like a fish out of water.
Put this in a loop you will get the pi-see-ture. 


 (tap tap tap)
  a search string or an error. 

   ctrl+c  ctrl+ v 

   search find (you might get new string to search and the pro-see-ess is repeated from step one)

   ctrl+c and ctrl+v. 
tap .. tap .. tap

Ctrl C, Ctrl V is the heart of the process and without -see- everything is topsy-turvy.


Like sign language there is a chat language. World is getting smaller and smaller, so are the words. Managing multiple -see-hat windows at the same time needs to have an uncanny kna-see-k of typing messages in the shortest possible way. Today's world talk more or less in LOLs, B4N, BRB, CU, Cu2 Cul8r (tap tap tap tap tap, father came and asked if I had any typewriter in my room. yeah yeah I got your point). In a sense I have traveled ba-see-k and is  -see-aught up with the old ways of -see-hatting. While I am duelling with my keyboard trying to send paragraphs after paragraphs, the person in the other window will have started LOL ing with someone else.  So for the time being, leave the idea of handling multiple -see-hat sessions at the same time. I have.

At times you forget it was jammed. You try to type check and they read heck(I don't have a theory of when -c- shows up and when it doesn't). Anyways you may end up having to justify yourself to people. And there are normal times and there are normal days where my 'c' suddenly starts working as if there was no problem at all.  And when I start thinking nothing is wrong, it -see-omes back as if to say you can't get rid of me that easily.

Positive side is that you learn new things. Being little philosophi-k-al, even the simplest of the things has its value. So savour it. 
Or you can simply buy a new keyboard and start using it..

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