Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: getting a key from stdin in UNIX Message-ID: <1990Feb8.130910.9083@druid.uucp> Date: 8 Feb 90 13:09:10 GMT References: <22287@mimsy.umd.edu> <4665@rtech.rtech.com> <5206@convex.convex.com> Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario Lines: 16 In article <5206@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >I strongly believe that any vendor who gives you a C compiler >without lint is ripping you off. It's like not having any >brakes or directions on your car. Get on the horn and bitch. > No thanks. I use Borland Turbo C with all the warnings turned on and GNU C with the -Wall option and I'll take that over lint any day. I actually get useful messages about what is wrong with the program as opposed to those crypto-facist messages that lint gives me. I can get by for the rest of my life without looking at another output from lint. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | (416) 281-6094 |