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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Bob Lawrence
date: 1996-11-02 08:34:16
subject: Special Requests

PE> NULLZERO.C(29): Warning! W102: Type mismatch
 BL> Eh? Can't I say while(1 == 1)?

 PE> You can, it was probably triggered off from something else.

  Your compiler is full of bugs.

 BL> It's really no different than what happens in normal writing...
 BL> you leave things out accidentally and do running rerpairs as
 BL> the compiler directs.

 PE> The idea is to not need to be told, you get it right first
 PE> time.

  No! That's what the compiler is for. We humans are good at imagining
and compilers are good clerks. A programmer costs $60 and hour, a
compiler is only $2 a week... a programmer's time is 1200-time more
expensive.

Regards,
Bob
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