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Subject: Re: Mach, the new standard?
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 19:56:31 EDT
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In article <26310@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>> From what I've seen of bell's code it is a net liability anyway.
>
>That's a pretty broad statement; how much of that code have you seen?  Some of
>it is good, some of it is bad, some of it is in-between, and some of it is a
>mixture of these.

Many of us seem to forget that coding styles have changed radically
since UNIX left the pdp11.  Taken out of context, and line at a time,
most "mature" code will look sloppy to our modern tastes.

xoxorich.