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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Tradition or what?
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 12:28:43 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4h7mlrINNrmk@anvil.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <4h7ce0$ojd@news.interpath.net>,
- Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems <softbase@mercury.interpath.net> wrote:
- >Stan Milam (milam@fohnix.metronet.com) wrote:
- >
- >: : Steve Maguire ... Writing Solid Code
- >
- >: 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.
- >
- >This is the first bad review of the book I've ever seen. When does he
- >violate Standard C?
- >
- >Maguire's argument that the standard library is one of the worst
- >designed interfaces ever seen is very valid -- it happened accidentally
-
- No argument over esthetics can ever be logically valid, except in the sense
- that ``if you accept my religious belief as true, it deductively follows that
- ...''.
-
- That always means that the conclusion is some sort of re-statement of the
- content of the premises.
- --
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