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From: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (G.M. Paris)
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Subject: Re: Re: questions from using lint
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Date: Sun, 11-May-86 14:22:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 11 14:22:19 1986
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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.
> 
> Before you start flaming my style, let me say I am quite good.
> I am also quite philosophical and attentive to coding style.
> My outlook is just different. I program for myself. If it is applicable
> to you, fine. I have my own criteria which I rarely see embraced by
> others waving standardization flags.
> 
> Most of the code I have written was intrinsically non-portable. I *do*
> appreciate portability as a spectrum concept, but not as a binary one.
> 
> This is just me. I'm not sure I would recommend my methods to anyone
> else, especially novices. My experience was obtained with more than a
> few battle scars. There are probably easier ways.
> 
> 	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj@cmr>
> 	"I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack"

Sorry I enclosed so much of the original article above, but I found it
so surprisingly bizzare, I just couldn't leave any of it out.  I have
two things to say about it: 1) I'm glad that Mr. Cottrell doesn't work
here; 2) I'd never recommend him being hired as a programmer, anywhere.
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