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Re: C versus other languages, round 538 or so (Re: CGI scriptsin sh)


From: Ben Galehouse <bgalehou () PACBELL NET>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:31:26 -0700

"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.


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