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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> OS's that have promiscuous includes (e.g. "if you include stdio.h,
> everything else gets included for you") enable bad code to be
> written unknowingly, by programmers who fail to remember the interface
> requirements from the manual pages (or fail to check them when they
> don't remember, and rely on the compiler to tell them when they are
> missing an include file, so they can go read the manual page to find
> out which include file is missing).

What these programmers should really be doing is writing in a language
that uses a more rigorous naming convention, or one that gives
programmers more control over the namespace(s).  Java is the only
``popular'' language I know of that does this fairly well, so it's too
bad that the rest of Java sucks.

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