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From: jackson@adobe.COM (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BIND named
Message-ID: <507@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 05:38:26 GMT
References: <72100003@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jackson@adobe.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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In article <72100003@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> carlson@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
}WITHOUT AFFECTING DEVELOPERS' APPLICATIONS AT ALL!
}In this kind of a case, I may want to make a minor and transparent change

You do, of course, understand what a cliche' the above is.
It ranks right up there with "the check is in the mail"
and "it'll only hurt a little bit."

The first time I heard it was at college when someone made a "minor
and transparent change" (those *exact* words) to the early C compiler
on our machine.  Afterwards, the following program:

main()
{
	int i;

	i = 5;
	printf("%d\n", i);
}

produced a large floating-point number as output...

This is not to imply you are that incompetent, but merely to raise
your awareness of what the phrase means to those who have been bitten.
-- 

Curtis Jackson @ Adobe Systems in Mountain View, CA  (415-962-4905)
Internet: jackson@adobe.com	uucp: ...!{apple|decwrl|sun}!adobe!jackson