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  2. From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
  3. Newsgroups: soc.bi
  4. Subject: Re: Homophobic garbage
  5. Message-ID: <1e9a7gINNbjo@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
  6. Date: 16 Nov 92 23:18:08 GMT
  7. References: <BxMJuC.J70@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Nov13.181645.2955@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1992Nov14.161042.14281@vpnet.chi.il.us>
  8. Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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  14.      You know, I've been enjoying this thread.  My C-code tends to 
  15. be well-written enough, and yet hacky enough, that I can chuckle 
  16. at things like:
  17.  
  18. }|}|1)   You need to include <stdio.h} if you're using printf
  19. }|}   Not necessarily.
  20. }|Rubbish.
  21. }|"spong.c": line 34: Warning - inventing "extern int printf"
  22. }
  23. }   My, what an amusing error message.  Note, though, that not every
  24. }compiler feels that it's necessary to complain about perfectly
  25. }valid C code.
  26. }
  27. }|Oh, I am assuming that you are 
  28. }|(a) using a good compiler and (b) using an ANSI
  29. }|compliant compiler (see (a)).
  30. }   Bit of an paradoxical thing, that, and not possible in the Real
  31. }World(tm)
  32.  
  33.      But then I saw this:
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  35. }   david parsons \bi/  Who even uses goto in his C code.
  36.                                       ^^^^
  37.                                       !!!!
  38.  
  39. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGHH!!!!!!!!
  40.  
  41. (It's not fun any more!  I'm frightened!)  8-(
  42.  
  43. /---\ /---\ /=   /   ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
  44.   =     =    = /    "Home is a place that keeps the rain off my computer"
  45.   =     =    = \     B0 f- t+ w- g k s- m+ r- p-(++)     ______
  46.   =     =    =   \                      silence = death   \bi/
  47.                                                            \/
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