From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>, jnc'@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 12:12:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp_yYYhwi1SinvsHeT=WhismC7gsM3mBnBTpsX2FmcS6Zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905154435.103E118C0A0@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> > From: Norman Wilson
>
> > It is just plain wrong to code
> > kill(9, pid)
>
> _All_ uses of magic numbers in numeric form are wrong!
>
> Noel
>
I completely agree, although you can do worse. A junior programmer I worked
with at MIT wrote (in IBM assembler)
twelv dc 10
(I probably have the syntax wrong, but he was declaring the value of
symbolic name 'twelv' to be 10). I have no idea why he did this. He didn't
last long.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-05 16:12 ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2018-09-05 16:45 ` Kurt H Maier
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2018-09-05 15:04 Norman Wilson
2018-09-05 15:42 ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-24 16:06 [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Clem Cole
2018-08-27 15:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-08-27 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-28 0:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-28 0:30 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-28 6:01 ` arnold
2018-08-28 22:33 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 0:36 ` Harald Arnesen
2018-08-29 1:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 3:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 4:36 ` [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands Warren Toomey
2018-08-29 16:13 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-08-29 22:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 22:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 22:21 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 23:04 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 23:38 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 3:59 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 22:31 ` Dan Mick
2018-08-29 23:00 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-30 8:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-30 11:06 ` ron
2018-08-30 11:35 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-30 13:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 14:31 ` William Pechter
2018-08-30 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 15:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 16:11 ` William Pechter
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