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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uses of "short" ?
Message-ID: <754@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 18:17:52 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.754
Posted: Fri Nov  1 18:17:52 1985
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References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <2600017@ccvaxa> <2883@sun.uucp> <48@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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[Not food]

In article <48@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>The trouble is, by not
>developing good (read innocuous but portable) habits in throwaway code,
>if you suddenly decide that you are an Implementor of Portable Code,
>you will have a lot of trouble get used to the "new" way of writing
>code.

The trouble is, you don't know what pieces of code aren't going to be
thrown away.  You may suddenly find that you *were* an Implementor of
[Not Very] Portable Code.  Better to do it right the first time.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108