Wes Garland wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Let me add to that a quote that's stuck in my memory.  I'm not 
 RJT> sure of the exact wording,  but it goes something pretty much 
 RJT> like "No program should leave its sanity at the mercy of its 
 RJT> input."  That was written in one of the magazines I used to read 
 RJT> by P. J. Plauger.  That name ring any bells?  :-)

 WG> Ah, Mr. Plauger, good man; currently writing for Dr. Dobbs, I
 WG> think.

He was the last time I looked,  and also for Embedded Systems Journal,  but
as I haven't read either publication in a number of years,  I couldn't say
whether he still was or not.

Also on the ANSI C standardization committee,  and after that was settled
got into the ISO effort,  as I recall.

 WG> Those are definately words to live by. 

They oughta be engraved on the upper portion of the monitor for anybody who
wants to "program"!

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