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From: gds@eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Titles
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 15:12:11 EST
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> From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)

> By that, I mean that the code does not pass lint, does not check the
> returns on system calls, dereferences NULL pointers, assumes that
> longs and ints are the same length,  or that they are guaranteed to
> by 32 bits wide.  This is unprofessional.

Of course, if lint itself doesn't pass lint, these arguments are invalid :-)

This is an interesting discussion.  If it's still going on 100 articles
from now (that's how far behind I am) I'll post something on the subject
(since I hold a 6.3 degree from MIT, one of the schools accused of not
turning out good programmers).
-- 
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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