Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!gwollman From: gwollman@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Garrett A Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C Community's Cavalier Attitude On Software Reliability Keywords: Dogmatic Religious Message-ID: <4414@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 6 Mar 90 03:50:19 GMT References: <7351@arcturus> <8212@hubcap.clemson.edu> <19955@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <2169@sunquest.UUCP> Reply-To: amy_065@jhunix.UUCP (Garrett A Wollman) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 23 In article <2169@sunquest.UUCP> ggg@sunquest.UUCP (Guy Greenwald) writes: >We're not dealing with a nice person here, >nor a reasonable one, despite the veneer of intellectuality. The >discussion he provokes can be useful, however, as long as one >realizes that one will never convince Mr Wolfe. That's not what he's >about. Even worse, he fiddled his address so that now I have to put a /wolf/h:j into my ~/News/comp/lang/c/KILL file. Not very nice indeed. Now, anyone who writes an article about how wolves interact with far pointers to functions returning characters, will be ignored. :-) -GAWollman "..." (got that, that was a "smiley") -- "All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and children. . . . As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other bases is possible." - Lazarus Long [RAH, _TEFL_] ---------------Hopkins doesn't *want* my opinions------------------------