Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Bug in Unix System V C compiler Message-ID: <4182@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 02:06:05 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4182 Posted: Mon Aug 6 02:06:05 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 02:06:05 EDT References: <1068@sdcsvax.UUCP> <3705@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2978@utah-cs.UUCP> <3726@brl-tgr.ARPA> <209@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 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