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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is this correct a=/* comment */b;
Message-ID: <15120@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:14:02 GMT
References: <532@ctycal.UUCP> <584@taumet.com> <1991Feb7.032512.20133@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Feb7.032512.20133@athena.mit.edu> scs@adam.mit.edu writes:
>Anyone who sticks a comment like that in anything even remotely
>resembling production code should probably be dragged out behind
>the barn on an icy, moonless night and put out of his misery with
>a 12-gauge like the pathetic dying mongrel he is.

My guess is that it was part of a C validation suite, for which it
would be a most appropriate piece of code.