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From: ded@aplvax.UUCP (Don E. Davis)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: questions from using lint
Message-ID: <219@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 12:22:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 12:22:36 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 07:08:58 EDT
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Reply-To: ded@aplvax.UUCP (Don E. Davis)
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
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>You people fail to realize that some of us out here don't like lint.
>It complains too much about what I do. I refuse to go any further
>than generating no compiler warnings. I know what I'm doing. When I
>goof, I'll fix it myself. I refuse to add extra casts to keep lint happy.
>
>	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj@cmr>

(Root Boy) is not alone, though with a name like that he should be. ;-)
I know several excellent programmers who never use lint.  Personally,
I use lint some, but it is not my religion.  I do think
programmers should be familiar with lint but I don't think we
should run screaming into the sea because someone never heard of it.

If they haven't heard of hack, now -- that's a different story!



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					Don Davis
					JHU/APL
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