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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <E612A01xds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:59:02 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.234217.23251@aucs.uucp> <732@sppy00.UUCP> <25eb63c7.6a42@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <12533@nigel.udel.EDU> <1990Mar2.095746.21311@bath.ac.uk> <2666@sactoh0.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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People write once-only programs all the time. It's just that in UNIX, they
never get stored anywhere. For example:

$ for i in *.c; do if grep errno $i; then
> ed - $i << !
> /^#include <errno.h>/a
> extern int errno;
> .
> w
> q
> !
> fi; done
$ 
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