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From: dbinette@van-bc.UUCP (Dave Binette)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <214@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 05:32:08 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.234217.23251@aucs.uucp> <2317@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: dbinette@van-bc.UUCP (Dave Binette)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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Company coding "standards" being inflexable and seldom stringent provide
a limited degree of conformity.  If they were truly rule-based the process 
could be automated.

I had the displeasure of working for a company that believed that interrupts
were evil incarnations of pending disaster and they insisted on using
polling techniques exclusively.

It was awfull.