On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:53:58PM -0400, Hubert Chan said: > > Some people believe that those bits were meant to work around the faulty > hardware that was around at that time. (Of course, the hardware we have > today is still faulty, though not necessarily in the same ways.) And > nobody agrees on what is the best compiler to use to translate the > original source code. Not to mention that the author has a strange > coding style that causes uncertainty in the intended purpose of certain > functions. There have also been a number of additions that some claim > to be a patch for the software, but some believe are subroutines that > corrupt the execution of the software. However, since over a billion people use this program, those of us who choose to write or use different programs should not completely dismiss the idea that we can learn from it. -- Shawn McMahon | We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those EIV Consulting | who say that we're in a time when there are no UNIX and Linux | heroes, they just don't know where to look. http://www.eiv.com | - Ronald Reagan
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