Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:3168 comp.lang.c:26849 comp.lang.misc:4426 Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language Message-ID: <1990Mar13.174153.14429@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <6960@internal.Apple.COM> <259@eiffel.UUCP> <1990Mar1.172526.28683@utzoo.uucp> <4397@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <1990Mar4.005122.14121@utzoo.uucp> <101@mcc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 90 17:41:53 GMT In article <101@mcc.UUCP> chris@mcc.UUCP (Chris Robertson) writes: >>Yeah, I was a C novice once. I'm glad that all the code I wrote then >>is dead and buried. > >Oh no it ain't, Henry -- I saved it all, and it's available to any who >ask for just a modest fee... hey, I could post sections of it, and we >could all discuss it! Sorry, Chris, my *real* C-novice days were back before you knew me, and the code from then really is dead and buried. Thank heavens. :-) I'd been using C for about five years by the time I started working at utzoo. This is not to say there isn't some slightly embarrassing code from more recent times... -- MSDOS, abbrev: Maybe SomeDay | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology an Operating System. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu