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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Bug in Unix System V C compiler
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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 02:06:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 02:06:05 1984
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But how many ``clearly not intended to be portable'' ``obviously of local
interest only'' and ``but gee, I only wrote it as a 10 minute throw away
program'' hacks get pressed into service? And who has time to rewrite them?

(answer: the poor sucker who has to port them to another architecture 
	and/or another flavour of UNIX.)

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura