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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Tradition or what?
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 17:33:52 GMT
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- Stan Milam (milam@fohnix.metronet.com) wrote:
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- : : Steve Maguire ... Writing Solid Code
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- : McGuire would have us all rewriting standard library functions putting inane
- : assertions in them. Never mind that he frequently violates Standard C
- : in his holy quest to find bugs.
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- This is the first bad review of the book I've ever seen. When does he
- violate Standard C?
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- Maguire's argument that the standard library is one of the worst
- designed interfaces ever seen is very valid -- it happened accidentally
- over years, with no rhyme or reason, and is filled with pitfalls.
- Consistency in the stdlib would have been nice, if there was some way
- it could have been achieved without breaking code. The bad part is
- people use it as a model for new software!
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- Scott
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