Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Wed Aug 17 2005 05:55 am

Chris Sonnack wrote:

> Richard Heathfield writes:
> 
>> Fourthly, there's a robustness problem, which occurs twice. (What?)
> 
> Yep.  (Life often overflows our expectations, doesn't it.)

Curiously, that wasn't what I meant. I had spotted the potential buffer 
overruns, but I seem to have failed to point them out! Rather than keep 
quiet about it, I've decided to own up and take my lumps because I'm 
curious as to whether you can find the /other/ robustness problem that I 
was describing here.

> (& I have a feeling
> your answer to five might differ from mine.  If you don't mean the most
> obvious choice (or mine, if different), I'm not sure which you mean.)

We were of one mind, as it happens.

> p.s.
> I considered spelling 'buf' two different ways, but figured the "out"
> might
> be that 'buff' refered to something global or in file scope.  [shrug]
> 
> p.p.s.
> No, you're right, no sane programmer would name a non-local, 'buff'.....
 
I have my own feelings about otherwise sane programmers wantonly using file 
scope objects... but I'll keep those feelings local for now. 

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Richard Heathfield
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