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From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: C Community's Cavalier Attitude On Software Reliability
Message-ID: <14374@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 13:29:48 GMT
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Reply-To: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <10529@alice.UUCP> dmr@alice.UUCP (Dennis Ritchie) writes:
>Wolfe, I gather, intends to construct a case against C by grepping
>for titillating phrases in the BUGS section of his manual.

Hmmm... Perhaps Wolfe is right, the C community (whatever that is) should
clean up its act.  Let's clean up those manuals by removing those pesky
"BUGS" sections and rewrite them, liberally using phrases such as "error-
free," "advanced software engineering features," and the like.

Yeh.  That's the ticket.  If only the C community would clean up its act,
then there would be no more problems.  The world's ills are caused by C
programmers.  After all, everyone knows that the No. 7 signalling network
would not have failed on M.L.K. day if the software had been written in
(pick one) Pascal, Modula-2, Eiffel, etc...

regards, Larry

Hi Randy!
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