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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: What does lint do?
Keywords: lint
Message-ID: <1991May30.001950.23289@netcom.COM>
Date: 30 May 91 00:19:50 GMT
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>And Mr Showalter also seems to enjoy baiting those of us who like C, but I
>will not rise to the bait.  It's too hot here to get all worked up.

No bait intended--a question was asked about lint, I gave an answer based
on my own experiences working with C people. Granted some C people are
better than others--to the good ones the necessity of running lint on all
code before inflicting it on the end user seems obvious (obvious enough
that some of them even ask heretical questions like "Why isn't it built
into the compiler in the first place?"...). To others, lint is something
evil and nasty and not to be trusted because it points an accusatory
finger at poor quality, hacked-together code; not surprisingly,
those who react this way tend to be the ones who produce such code.

>p.s. note lack of signature soliciting business.  it's a grey area, putting
>such dreck in your sig, but I for one don't like it.

Yeah, well--you've got a steady job. How about cutting those of us who work
freelance a little slack?
-- 
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