stevo@uniblab.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom) (07/11/89)
In article <1989Jul9.032048.3850@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes: >In future, would people posting reports of alleged bugs in C news please >first check that they are running C news and try to verify the alleged >bugs by examining the code (which often turns out to be shell scripts) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >to confirm that there is a non-zero probability that the alleged bug >actually exists? >-- >Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu >``... skill such as yours is evidence of a misspent youth.'' - Herbert Spencer Hmm.... I thought part of the point of C news (OK, I'll spell it your way but I won't put spaces in my source directory names) was that it was to be written mostly in C. So why is the code "often [...] shell scripts"? Or did Geoff mean that the bugs often turn out to be in the scripts as opposed to the C code? Or maybe in C shell scripts? :-) That was probably just my impression though, I can't produce any quotes of someone telling me that. I'm not complaining either. We're running it and it works great. I just found the thought to be worth a grin. Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109 Internet: stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov UUCP: {ames,cit-vax}!elroy!stevo Disclaimer: (thick German accent) "I know noothingg! Noothingg!"
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (07/11/89)
In article <1989Jul10.171446.16333@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> stevo@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom) writes: >Hmm.... I thought part of the point of C news... was that it >was to be written mostly in C. So why is the code "often [...] shell >scripts"? Or did Geoff mean that the bugs often turn out to be in >the scripts as opposed to the C code? Or maybe in C shell scripts? :-) Nope, we never write anything in C unless there are good performance reasons for doing so. (Once in a while we refrain even so, actually, when issues like portability bite particularly hard.) C is just the letter after B. The bugs were pretty evenly distributed during development, as I recall. "C shell script" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence". For that matter, so is "C shell". :-) :-) -- $10 million equals 18 PM | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology (Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu