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Date:      Mon, 17 Aug 1998 05:59:59 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64-bit time_t 
Message-ID:  <199808171200.GAA21209@lariat.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980817075447.5095P-100000@animaniacs.itribe. net>
References:  <199808141756.LAA24900@lariat.lariat.org>

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At 07:56 AM 8/17/98 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote:

>I don't care how many times you make this analogy, it still doesn't work.
>You're not the consumer, you're the designer/implementer.  It's your job
>to put the seatbelts, bumpers, airbags, etc. in your code.  You have the
>raw materials and the assembly plant.

Nope, we're talking about safety measures in the language and compiler. Of
which we are consumers, unless we choose to reinvent both (which generally
is not the project at hand).

--Brett


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