The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier)
Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:33:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180322163326.GA56561@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01d401d3c1f9$ebd18270$c3748750$@ronnatalie.com>

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:22:06PM -0400, Ron Natalie wrote:
> 
> It's right up there with using #defines for silly things like
>     #define FOUR 4
> 
> Great.   What doe this tell me that the literal 4 doesn't.    It's a matter of time until someone says
>     #define FOUR 5
> 

One of my favorite messages I've ever received:
          
http://sourceware.org/ml/glibc-cvs/2013-q1/msg00115.html
          
khm



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-22 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-21 14:17 [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28     ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33       ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49           ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37         ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  2:24         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39       ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56       ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01         ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04       ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56         ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:04           ` [TUHS] comments ( was daemons exorcised ) Earl Baugh
2018-03-21 20:18             ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:51               ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 20:13           ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:28             ` [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems Warren Toomey
2018-03-21 20:48               ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 22:18               ` William Corcoran
2018-03-21 23:02                 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-22  1:31                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:17                 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 23:50                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  0:55                     ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-22  1:00                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 23:45               ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22  0:31                 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-22  0:58               ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-22  1:27                 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  1:59                   ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-22 14:46                   ` Steve Simon
2018-03-22 15:22                     ` ron minnich
2018-03-22 16:22                     ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-22 16:32                       ` arnold
2018-03-22 20:20                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-22 16:33                       ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2018-03-23  1:31                   ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-22  1:40 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-22  2:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-22 13:49 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-22 14:29 ` Nemo
2018-03-23  1:54 Doug McIlroy

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20180322163326.GA56561@wopr \
    --to=khm@sciops.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).