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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> writes:
> Any C code that isn't written according to the standard that defines
> C is broken.

That includes most of the FreeBSD source tree.

> There's just no argument to be made that FreeBSD should be hacked
> to support C code that is written by programmers who haven't bothered
> to learn the rules of C properly.
> [...]
> My opinion is that FreeBSD should cater to the people who know their
> stuff and let the crap programmers out their be shown the bugs that
> exist in their code when they try to use it on FreeBSD.

Now I know why people accuse us of elitism...

Let's please not favor pedantry over robustness.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org