Re: C versus other languages,

["Robert A. Seace" <ras () SLARTIBARTFAST MAGRATHEA COM>]

In the profound words of Ben Galehouse:
> "Bluefish (P.Magnusson)" wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > Additionally, many people trust binary-only compilers... If you are really
> > paranoid, that's not a good thing :)  (to be honest, I'm not that
> > paranoid)
>
> I've seen stories, supposedly from the early days of unix, regarding a
> pariticular c compiler.  In would compile files normally, unless it was
> compiling login... or itself.

        That would be:

http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

        It's one of my all-time favorite stories of an extremely
cool hack... ;-)

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