Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccieng2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: berkeley cretins Message-ID: <130@ccieng2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 08:33:25 EST Article-I.D.: ccieng2.130 Posted: Thu Mar 1 08:33:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 07:19:31 EST References: <316@dual.UUCP> Organization: Computer Consoles Inc., Rochester, NY Lines: 18 Yes, there are Berkeley cretins and there are Bell cretins, and I think we're all in agreement that trying to use (foobar *) 0 for anything other than a null pointer test is seriously deranged. I suggest that we all watch our own code for similar cretinly behavior. We all have moments of madness, I'm sure, and we must be on the watch for such evil. I further recommend that any person found writing such code should be flogged into submission and compelled to change his or her design, and thus we can at least REDUCE the massive quantities of this sort of problem. After all, there are those of us who have been, up to this point anyway, neither a Berkeley nor a Bell cretin, but who have been porting software from both cretin hovels to other CPUs, and it's been more than a little irritating. -- Karl Kleinpaste ...![ [seismo, allegra]!rochester!ritcv, rlgvax]!ccieng5!ccieng2!kfk