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From: hosking@convexs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bizzare code
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 08:11:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 08:11:00 1985
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Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!hosking    Aug 22 07:11:00 1985


> I knew of someone once who was so dumb that he used
> to jump over comments in his assembler code.  Does
> that count?

Yes, but it's not quite as good as the code in a well known company's
office automation product.  The people that wrote it seemed to think
that comments destroyed the frame pointer, so they reloaded it after
almost every comment.

			Doug Hosking
			Convex Computer Corp.
			Richardson, TX