On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 08:52:22AM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 8:32 AM tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
...
...
> > It is of course faster, but nothing beats in the long run developing your
> > own
> > abstraction of how a programming language works the hard way by hitting
> > several times the wall to find out what works and what not and why.
> >
> > Hmm - - - this is called learning by doing - - - agreed.

Just like the original querent did when be used
    gcc -Wall -o bicycles.c
instead of 
    gcc -Wall bicycles.c

And he aasked on this mailing list to get help from an experience developer.

-- hendrik