From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-08-29T05:15:30+09:00
Subject: Re: performance comparison

Charles Mills <cmills@freeshell.org> wrote:
> 
>   C is enough of an expression language that the compiler did not 
> complain about a statement which evaluated an expression, had no 
> side-effects, and simply threw away the result. We didn't know whether 
> to bless our good fortune at locating the problem, or cry with 
> frustration at such a common typing error causing such an expensive 
> problem. Some versions of the lint program would have detected this 
> problem, but it's all too easy to avoid the automatic use of this 
> essential tool.

Nevermind the programmer, but I'm amazed that when they hit that sort of
debugging task they didn't bother linting the code.

martin