Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news humor (was Re: Cnews lets outside control messages create groups)
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.232610.5776@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul9.032048.3850@utstat.uucp> <1989Jul10.171446.16333@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 23:26:10 GMT

In article <1989Jul10.171446.16333@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> stevo@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom) writes:
>Hmm.... I thought part of the point of C news... 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? :-)

Nope, we never write anything in C unless there are good performance reasons
for doing so.  (Once in a while we refrain even so, actually, when issues
like portability bite particularly hard.)  C is just the letter after B.

The bugs were pretty evenly distributed during development, as I recall.

"C shell script" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence".  For that
matter, so is "C shell".   :-) :-)
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