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From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: berkeley cretins
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 08:33:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 08:33:25 1984
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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
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