You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, create a function and inject arguments. You'd place these in your bashrc file, ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...