questions from using lint

[Root Boy Jim]

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	From: "G.M. Paris" <rayssd!gmp>
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	Subject: Re: Re: questions from using lint
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	Date: 11 May 86 18:22:19 GMT
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	> You people fail to realize that some of us out here don't like lint.
	> It complains too much about what I do. I refuse to go any further
	> than generating no compiler warnings. I know what I'm doing. When I
	> goof, I'll fix it myself. I refuse to add extra casts to keep lint happy.
	> 
	> Before you start flaming my style, let me say I am quite good.
	> I am also quite philosophical and attentive to coding style.
	> My outlook is just different. I program for myself. If it is applicable
	> to you, fine. I have my own criteria which I rarely see embraced by
	> others waving standardization flags.
	> 
	> Most of the code I have written was intrinsically non-portable. I *do*
	> appreciate portability as a spectrum concept, but not as a binary one.
	> 
	> This is just me. I'm not sure I would recommend my methods to anyone
	> else, especially novices. My experience was obtained with more than a
	> few battle scars. There are probably easier ways.
	> 
	> 	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj at cmr>
	> 	"I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack"
	
	Sorry I enclosed so much of the original article above, but I found it
	so surprisingly bizzare, I just couldn't leave any of it out.  I have
	two things to say about it: 1) I'm glad that Mr. Cottrell doesn't work
	here; 2) I'd never recommend him being hired as a programmer, anywhere.
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