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Subject: Re: Standard C Programming - wot a dumb idea.
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 03:35:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 03:35:17 1987
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Harry Skelton (guardian@laidback.UUCP) suggested in news.admin the following
> >10. no memory playing - no mallocs, allocs, callocs or whatever - if it 
>      can't be handled by the compiler then don't post it.

I agree with Harry.  Let's go back to fixed-size buffers for everything.
No sense in allocating enough space to handle whatever the world throws
at us.  If somebody tries to grep a file with a 1000 character line in it,
we should clearly core dump.  That'll teach the user to keep to 80
columns like Mr. Hollerith said to.
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