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Date:      Tue, 08 Oct 1996 08:14:14 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG>
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, ache@nagual.ru, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random()) 
Message-ID:  <3071.844755254@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:02:34 PDT." <199610071902.MAA10966@meerkat.mole.org> 

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In message <199610071902.MAA10966@meerkat.mole.org>, "M.R.Murphy" writes:
>Is anyone else fed up with ad hominum attacks?

yes.

But I'm also tired of Terry blowing things WAY out of proportion.

Nobody has even thought about tinkering with rand48.

Nobody needing serious random numbers uses rand().

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