Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ccvaxa!wombat From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: catering to bad code Message-ID: <28200013@ccvaxa> Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 21:22:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.28200013 Posted: Fri Feb 27 21:22:00 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 03:42:49 EST References: <14833@amdcad.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:amdcad.UUCP:14833:ccvaxa:28200013:000:610 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!wombat Feb 27 20:22:00 1987 /*Written 2:23 pm Feb 25, 1987 by lamaster@pioneer.arpa in ccvaxa:comp.arch*/ Which ones are they? /* End of text from ccvaxa:comp.arch */ awk, csh, make, su, dump, ifconfig, timed, battlestar, games/hunt, biff, lastcomm, systat, telnet, w, at, atq, lookbib, refer, uucp, and yacc. The worst offender is awk, where 8 code changes were made. Most of the others were changed in only one place. "My words say what you hear them say, but the movements of my mouth indicate that I am telling a series of humorous stories in Yiddish." R.A. Lafferty, *The Devil Is Dead* Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat