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08/23/05 14:51
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 		 #99908 - It's never the author's problem
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Andy Neil said:
If I had a pound for every post here & on the Keil forum claiming to have found a compiler bug when it's really a coding error - I'd be rich!

Back in the olden days when our PCs used 80286 and 80386 CPUs, the author of a PC application written in C would (and I'm not fibbing here) always claim that his program having gone bonkers must be due to a bad memory chip (this was also when you could change individual memory chips). Our PCs' memory became much more reliable after I started fixing all of this fellow's pointer bugs ;-)

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defensive coding how and why            01/01/70 00:00      
   What do you mean?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Elegant            01/01/70 00:00      
         Paradox?            01/01/70 00:00      
      clarification            01/01/70 00:00      
         Remember            01/01/70 00:00      
            Absolutely, and even then should be avoi            01/01/70 00:00      
            Absolutely, and even then should be avoi            01/01/70 00:00      
            extrodiaray?            01/01/70 00:00      
                extrodiaray?            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Goooooogle            01/01/70 00:00      
                     No, he does not            01/01/70 00:00      
                        proofreading            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Another challeneg            01/01/70 00:00      
                        another challenge            01/01/70 00:00      
               OK, I can not Spell            01/01/70 00:00      
                  this is my point            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I sure you could, But            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Really?            01/01/70 00:00      
                           professors and classes            01/01/70 00:00      
                           Really !            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Hmmm            01/01/70 00:00      
            defensive commenting            01/01/70 00:00      
         Don't know            01/01/70 00:00      
            Ok, let me get away from that word            01/01/70 00:00      
               Gotcha            01/01/70 00:00      
                  and I came to truly despise that word wh            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Just like driving            01/01/70 00:00      
            Elegant equals...            01/01/70 00:00      
               that it            01/01/70 00:00      
               Oh, how true...!            01/01/70 00:00      
                  It's never the author's problem            01/01/70 00:00      
                     I knew a person who told me about a real            01/01/70 00:00      
                        A blissful existence            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Your bugs versus my bugs (or vice versa)            01/01/70 00:00      
                     common wisdom has it that the average pr            01/01/70 00:00      
   One exception            01/01/70 00:00      
      exceptions            01/01/70 00:00      
         vice versa            01/01/70 00:00      
            what is obvious            01/01/70 00:00      
               your mileage may vary            01/01/70 00:00      
                  that is the very same            01/01/70 00:00      
                     competent            01/01/70 00:00      
                        please define "working"            01/01/70 00:00      
                           competent programming => working program            01/01/70 00:00      
   i'm new            01/01/70 00:00      
      if you move your eyeballs a bit to the l            01/01/70 00:00      
         Coding Bible            01/01/70 00:00      
            Precedence vs. explicitness            01/01/70 00:00      
   Outlaw coding!            01/01/70 00:00      
      a program it is, by definition, asynchro            01/01/70 00:00      
         Methinks the point was missed            01/01/70 00:00      
            "Easy?"            01/01/70 00:00      
            but we agree            01/01/70 00:00      
      VIPER?            01/01/70 00:00      
      What does "timing" mean?            01/01/70 00:00      
         excuse the foreigner, if he was not clea            01/01/70 00:00      

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