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- From: jgarzik@cc.gatech.edu (Jeff Garzik)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Unix or NT? Get a Mac!
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 18:44:09 -0500
- Organization: Slack Central
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- In article <4chjjl$a5j@hecate.umd.edu>, Ram Samudrala <me@ram.org> wrote:
- >Thanks for the list. This is partly an issue of whether you're a
- >careful programmer or not. Perhaps it might take a few months of
- >coding in C to get these aspects right, whereas it might never be a
- >worry for Perl programmers. However, it is a function of the
- >programmer rather than any innate feature of the languages. Normally,
- >if you're coding well, these issues should never come up.
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- Let's live in the real world here. Programmers make mistakes. A good
- programmer makes fewer mistakes (or none, on a particular job), but
- blindly assuming you'll never accidentally forget a malloc, or free, or
- trash a pointer inadvertently -- is ludicrous.
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- Jeff
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