5 Sep
2018
5 Sep
'18
9:44 p.m.
From: Norman Wilson
It is just plain wrong to code
kill(9, pid)
_All_ uses of magic numbers in numeric form are wrong!
Noel
5 Sep
5 Sep
10:12 p.m.
New subject: Cryptic Unix Commands
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I completely agree, although you can do worse. A junior programmer I worked
with at MIT wrote (in IBM assembler)
twelv dc 10
(I probably have the syntax wrong, but he was declaring the value of
symbolic name 'twelv' to be 10). I have no idea why he did this. He didn't
last long.
From: Norman
Wilson
It is just plain wrong to code
kill(9, pid)
_All_ uses of magic numbers in numeric form are wrong!
Noel
10:45 p.m.
New subject: Cryptic Unix Commands
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:44:35AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_68_0/boost/utility/binary.hpp
khm
From: Norman
Wilson
It is just plain wrong to code
kill(9, pid)
_All_ uses of magic numbers in numeric form are wrong!
Noel
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