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From: kentb@argosy.UUCP (Kent Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object
Subject: Re: Reference Semantics
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Date: 11 Jun 91 00:01:14 GMT
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After a year and a half working on a project containing 50K non-comment
source lines of Smalltalk I just got my first defect that was a result 
of improper aliasing.  I marked it at the time because I could not
remember seeing many such bugs in code I have worked on previously.

Kent Beck