Newsgroup: comp.lang.c


Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:31:45 +0300
From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
Organization: Athens University of Economics and Business
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Subject: Re: Code quality and examples from open source C code
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Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Diomidis Spinellis said:
> 
>> A quick note to inform my fellow C programmers that my new book "Code
>> Quality: The Open Source Perspective" (Addison-Wesley, 2006) has just
>> been published.
> 
> Thanks, Diomidis.
> 
> It's a bit of a shame that you've met with a rather frosty response
> from Al and Chuck. In their defence, we do get a lot of junk posted
> in this group.

No problem.  These are the risks of posting to a public forum, 
especially after a very long absence.  From the replies to this message 
it is obvious that Al and Chuck were trying to protect the newsgroup, 
rather than attack me.  Anyway, as you will have noticed, to redeem 
myself I've started posting replies to some questions I feel I could 
address.  Hopefully this will restore the signal/noise ratio of my 
contributions; however, I doubt I can address the damage done by your 
posting of my obfuscated C code :-)  In two cases I found that I could 
provide answers to questions by posting excerpts from open-source code. 
  I'll continue to do that, until I start writing another book or 
somebody here tells me to shut up.

Diomidis



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