Uses of "short" ?

[Frank Adams]

[Not food]

In article <48 at hadron.UUCP> jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>The trouble is, by not
>developing good (read innocuous but portable) habits in throwaway code,
>if you suddenly decide that you are an Implementor of Portable Code,
>you will have a lot of trouble get used to the "new" way of writing
>code.

The trouble is, you don't know what pieces of code aren't going to be
thrown away.  You may suddenly find that you *were* an Implementor of
[Not Very] Portable Code.  Better to do it right the first time.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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