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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: fast code and no morals
Message-ID: <2600037@ccvaxa>
Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 11:59:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 11:59:00 1986
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> "No morals" applies less to the lack of comments than to the author's
> failure to credit the idea to Tom Duff, invented it and who posted it
> to this newsgroup a year or so ago.  "Don't shade your eyes,
> plagiarize!" /* Written 11:42 pm  Jan 26, 1986 by dmr@dutoit.UUCP in
> ccvaxa:net.lang.c */
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The trick is simple enough to be re-discovered many times, cute
enough to be worth posting when discovered.  I see no reason
to assume the author knew of the previous posting.  Note the
slightly divergent treatment of the 0 case.  The Duff posting
was 20 months ago, which is a long time, in net terms.

There's nothing the matter with machine dependent code IF YOU
EXPLAIN IT AND MARK IT SO.  There is no such thing as a program
that runs too fast...

-- 
scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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