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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:29:49 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        ache@nagual.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, bde@zeta.org.au
Subject:   Re: I plan to change random() for -current (was Re: rand() and random())
Message-ID:  <9610071829.AA06015@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610071810.LAA14432@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199610071720.VAA01227@nagual.ru> <199610071810.LAA14432@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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<<On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:10:44 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said:

>> Well, it sounds like "golden code" syndrome....

> It *is* "golden code syndrome".

> That doesn't make it any less of a valid argument.

I would say it's more like Terry bitching like he usually does about
somebody making a piece of code act like it's supposed to on the
grounds that someone, somewhere actually depends on the bugs in it.
I for one am quite sick of your whining.

Around here we call that attitude ``UNIX Hacker bug #78''.

-GAWollman

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