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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getting a key from stdin in UNIX
Message-ID: <1392@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 04:08:05 GMT
References: <1990Feb11.052731.318@twwells.com>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <1990Feb11.052731.318@twwells.com>, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) says:
	regarding 'lint' verses compiler warning levels:
> I use them both. The cost of running a "finished" program through
> every checker you have before releasing it is generally negligable
> compared to the cost of the errors that would otherwise appear.

I also run source through 'cb' or one of the pretty-print programs.
I've encountered bugs where I wasn't looking by noticing that the indentation
appeared goofy.  My idea of 'else' doesn't always match the compilers'.

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