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From: stevo@uniblab.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C news humor (was Re: Cnews lets outside control messages create groups)
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.171446.16333@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:14:46 GMT
References: <1989Jul9.032048.3850@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: stevo@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom)
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <1989Jul9.032048.3850@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>In future, would people posting reports of alleged bugs in C news please
>first check that they are running C news and try to verify the alleged
>bugs by examining the code (which often turns out to be shell scripts)
							 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to confirm that there is a non-zero probability that the alleged bug
>actually exists?
>-- 
>Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
>``... skill such as yours is evidence of a misspent youth.'' - Herbert Spencer


Hmm.... I thought part of the point of C news (OK, I'll spell it your
way but I won't put spaces in my source directory names) was that it
was to be written mostly in C.  So why is the code "often [...] shell
scripts"?  Or did Geoff mean that the bugs often turn out to be in
the scripts as opposed to the C code?  Or maybe in C shell scripts? :-)

That was probably just my impression though, I can't produce any quotes
of someone telling me that.  I'm not complaining either.  We're running
it and it works great.  I just found the thought to be worth a grin.


Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109
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